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: 2) by JNCF on Monday October 31 2016, @08:45PM
Or even removing the sex stuff from the equation, you'll have idiots holding ipads and laptops in front of the air bags to "get work done" and setting off the air bag will make the ipad decapitate them. People already die because of airbags so you know they're just going to behave even worse when they have a self driving car.
I know how to solve this problem, we just need to legislate an air-bag into every screen!