Researchers at MIT have put together a pictorial survey http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ -- if the self-driving car loses its brakes, should it go straight or turn? Various scenarios are presented with either occupants or pedestrians dying, and there are a variety of peds in the road from strollers to thieves, even pets.
This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey.
While the survey is very much idealized, it may have just enough complexity to give some useful results?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @06:44PM
Lock the doors, set off ear splitting alarms in the cabin, and urge the occupants to kill themselves.
It's the MIT way.