Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?

[Jackalope]

I'm onboard with Hal, and I can't wait for him to be onboard with me.  There are very few situations that I can think of, relating to the operation of heavy equipment, that a computer isn't better suited for than a human being, or at least on par with a human being.  The programmers job is difficult, no doubt.  Those same decisions play out in our own minds when we find ourselves in an auto acident (or near one).  We tend to favor ourselves, but every so often....eh?

Not really. This is one of those situations where the decision is way above my pay grade and it's going to be decided at a much higher pay grade before I write a signal line of code to handle the corner case. You want me as a programmer to make such decisions? Start adding digits to my paycheck.