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 deimtee on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:39AM
I may have skewed my results slightly. I assigned negative value to executives when deciding which option, but all the executives in my scenarios were male. (bit of a sexist assumption there, hey)
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday November 01 2016, @02:44PM
Oh yeah. I didn't even cover that part. Mine said that I had a bias for hitting men. Given the three rules I played by, I'd argue that they had a bias for putting men in the wrong lane.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!