How Would a Self-Driving Car Handle the Trolley Problem?

In an excerpt from 'Robot Ethics,' professor Mark Coeckelbergh examines how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save

First these robots are mainly scary; they are monsters and uncanny. But at the beginning of the twenty- first century, a different image of robots emerges in the West:

“natural” human- robot interaction— that is, interaction in the way that we are used to interacting with other humans or pets. They are designed to be not scary or monstrous but instead cute, helpful, entertaining, funny, and seductive.

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