{"id":86238,"date":"2018-12-30T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T12:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-self-driving-car-can-choose-who-dies-in-a-fatal-crash-these-are-the-ethical-considerations"},"modified":"2018-12-30T05:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T13:28:04","slug":"a-self-driving-car-can-choose-who-dies-in-a-fatal-crash-these-are-the-ethical-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-self-driving-car-can-choose-who-dies-in-a-fatal-crash-these-are-the-ethical-considerations","title":{"rendered":"A self-driving car can choose who dies in a fatal crash. These are the ethical considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-self-driving-car-can-choose-who-dies-in-a-fatal-crash-these-are-the-ethical-considerations3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can machines make moral choices?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A massive new survey developed by MIT researchers reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some regional variations in those preferences.<\/p>\n<p>The survey has global reach and a unique scale, with over 2 million online participants from over 200 countries weighing in on versions of a classic ethical conundrum, the \u201cTrolley Problem.\u201d The problem involves scenarios in which an accident involving a vehicle is imminent, and the vehicle must opt for one of two potentially fatal options. In the case of driverless cars, that might mean swerving toward a couple of people, rather than a large group of bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study is basically trying to understand the kinds of moral decisions that driverless cars might have to resort to,\u201d says Edmond Awad, a postdoc at the MIT Media Lab and lead author of a new paper outlining the results of the project. \u201cWe don\u2019t know yet how they should do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/10\/how-should-autonomous-vehicles-be-programmed\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/10\/how-should-autonomous-vehicles-be-programmed\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/10\/how-should-autonomous-vehicles-be-programmed\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/10\/how-should-autonomous-vehicles-be-programmed\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can machines make moral choices? A massive new survey developed by MIT researchers reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some regional variations in those preferences. The survey has global reach and a unique scale, with over 2 million online participants from over 200 countries weighing in on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86238","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86243,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86238\/revisions\/86243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}