The Real Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
It has nothing to do with the ‘trolley problem’
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6 min readNov 7, 2019
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The advent of self-driving cars revived the decades-old philosophical conundrum known as the “trolley problem.” The basic setup is this: A vehicle is hurtling toward a group of five pedestrians, and the only way to save them is to swerve and run over a single pedestrian instead.