
Self-driving Cars and the Apocalypse | Ryan Jenkins (with Stephen Kershnar)
Brain in a Vat
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How to Prioritize the Accident Case With Self-Driving Cars
The classic trolley problem is supposed to draw out exactly this kind of tension. So I think there are one natural responses just to try to save as many people as you can. But that gets complicated when we think about the way of putting that into practice. And it's a principled and defensible position to say in these kinds of one-to-one comparison cases, the manufacturer might have a stronger obligation to passengers of the vehicle than those outside.
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