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posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 31 2016, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the explosions-killing-everybody-isn't-a-choice dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by schad on Monday October 31 2016, @11:53PM

    by schad (2398) on Monday October 31 2016, @11:53PM (#421089)

    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.

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