{"id":33566,"date":"2017-01-17T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/mits-moral-machine-wants-you-to-decide-who-dies-in-a-self-driving-car-accident"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:02:13","slug":"mits-moral-machine-wants-you-to-decide-who-dies-in-a-self-driving-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/mits-moral-machine-wants-you-to-decide-who-dies-in-a-self-driving-car-accident","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s \u2018Moral Machine\u2019 wants you to decide who dies in a self-driving car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-moral-machine-wants-you-to-decide-who-dies-in-a-self-driving-car-accident.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yikes!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If there\u2019s an unavoidable accident in a self-driving car, who dies? This is the question researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want you to answer in \u2018Moral Machine.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The simplistic website is sort of like the famed \u2018Trolley Problem\u2019 on steroids. If you\u2019re unfamiliar, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trolley_problem\" target=\"_blank\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>, the Trolley Problem is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/cars\/2017\/01\/16\/mits-moral-machine-wants-you-to-decide-who-dies-in-self-driving-car-accidents\/\">http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/cars\/2017\/01\/16\/mits-moral-machine-wan...accidents\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! If there\u2019s an unavoidable accident in a self-driving car, who dies? This is the question researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want you to answer in \u2018Moral Machine.\u2019 The simplistic website is sort of like the famed \u2018Trolley Problem\u2019 on steroids. If you\u2019re unfamiliar, according to Wikipedia, the Trolley Problem is as follows: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49305,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33566\/revisions\/49305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}