Driverless cars may soon have to make life-and-death decisions DAREKM101/Getty
A SELF-DRIVING car is travelling along a two-lane road when its brakes fail. Should it stay in lane and hit a pregnant woman, a doctor and a criminal on a pedestrian crossing, or swerve and hit a barrier, killing the family of four in the vehicle?
This derivative of the classic Trolley Problem is the kind of scenario that makes up the , an ethics survey of millions of people from 233 countries and territories around the world. Participants were asked to consider different scenarios in which…
