RE: Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?
November 17, 2015 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 8:35 pm by IATIA.)
(November 17, 2015 at 8:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I don't see us giving people who hit other vehicles while trying to avoid dying due to some failure or unforseen event that much shit. People swerve to avoid getting hit by semis and end up hitting other cars with some regularity. I'd hope we would extend the same courtesy to the programmers of automatic vehicles.
The problem is people (especially after conversing with a lawyer) are greedy. There was a lawsuit against Ford, way back when, that involved a teenager, a pick/up, nighttime, a straight country road and a sharp curve at the end of that road. The truck rolled, the roof caved in and the teen was mangled and/or killed (faulty memory). The contention was that Ford should have built a better roof.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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