It was just a matter of time before we had to deal with the reality that self-driving will be safer on average, but will still randomly kill people in a more noticeable way than the human error killing us every day. Get out your trolley cars and switches, folks. It's ethics timehttps://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/980856376195825664 …
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Prob the most important point is that this currently moot, since self-driving cars will not have the kind of situational awareness to make these calls for a very, very long time, and just the basic "avoid or soften all collisions to whatever extent possible" saves a lot of lives
But in any case, the idea that you as a driver in a suddenly lethal situation would have the time or cognitive acuity to make what you would later consider a reasonable judgment call re: choosing your life or a pedestrian's seems reeeeally misguided
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Given the car is just prioritizing avoiding/softening collisions, and for some reason the rider can set any sort of preferences around that(?), it is *still* unreasonable to expect anything less than a massive increase in fatalities avoided entirely. This is not a trolley problem
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