Will you miss driving your non-autonomous car?
A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won't attempt to cover them all in one poll. But one of them had
Results: Random chance over informed decision
Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn't wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice between crashing into an SUV vs. a
How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?
A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous cars. The article, titled "The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You",
Results: How would you like to interface with your car?
In our previous poll, we discussed a moral dilemma involving an autonomous car called the Tunnel Problem. In it, the car needs to decide whether to save a child’s life or its’ passenger’s. Obviously, such a scenario we hope no