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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @09:00PM
>> 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.
> These words make the blood run cold!
OP here. I'm glad that someone picked up on this. Trust the ancient to have some common sense!
At the same time that I was developing simplistic criteria, I was also scaring the hell out of myself, realizing that others would likely do the same thing, including programmers...and simplify what is actually a tough problem (in many cases).