The Trolley Problem version of autonomous vehicles

(Bentham Science Publishers) The Trolley Problem is a very well-known ethics dilemma about actively killing one or sometimes even more persons in order to save more persons. The problem can occur in situations involving autonomous vehicles when the vehicle realizes that there is no way to prevent a collision, the computer of the vehicle should analyze which collision is considered to be the least harmful collision.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news