The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

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There's nothing like, you know, your car is not going to conspire against you. And the other thing that I think is, do you want to buy a car that, under certain rare circumstances, would choose to sacrifice you for some reason? If it's something that can be coldly calculated in advance and your car is making the decision, then people start saying, No, no, no, cars should do this, that and the other thing. But second off, that would certainly be against the law. So these would not be something you would broadcast. Or say these cells altruistic cars and they're all pink, the selfish cars are black. The selfish cars would be

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Recorded November 15th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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