How would we program a self driving car that is faced with something like a "Trolley problem" [1].
i.e. the car is faced with 2 possible probable collisions of which it can only avoid one. Or between running over a pedestrian and crashing into a tree.
I assume this probably already worked into the current prototypes. Does anyone have references to discussions about this in current gen self driving car prototypes?
Jean-François Bonnefon; Azim Shariff; Iyad Rahwan (2015-10-13). "Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?". arXiv.org.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03346
I assume this probably already worked into the current prototypes. Does anyone have references to discussions about this in current gen self driving car prototypes?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem