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: 5, Insightful) by schad on Monday October 31 2016, @11:53PM
I think your point could be summed up thusly: "You've got to plan for the world which actually exists, not the one which you think ought to exist."
It's good advice -- though seldom followed -- and applies just as well to damn near everything.