In that case, the most important self-driving trolley problem is not within an individual automobile, but rather the overall moral choice for our society whether we continue to allow human driven cars. TL,DR: I used to believe that self-driving cars would lead to all sorts of ethical problems, and their development should be discouraged.Thinking about how the trolley problem applied to self driving cars led me to change my mind, and now I believe their benefits outweigh their risks so much that it is morally imperative that we try to build and deploy them as soon as possible. Join Doug Rose for an in-depth discussion in this video Self-driving cars' trolley problem, part of Data Ethics: Making Data-Driven Decisions Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! 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 “Trolley Problem.” 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. But to the people actually making self driving cars, it’s kind of boring. Not just one type of trolley problem, but endless different types of them can be generated for self-driving cars. MIT’s Moral Machine does precisely this with their user-friendly “game” where 13 scenarios are presented wherein you get to decide what a self-driving a … Self-driving cars and the trolley problem Can you imagine a world in which your life could be sacrificed to save the lives of two others? Respondents disagree on whom an autonomous car should kill in the event of an unavoidable crash. No single solution to self-driving cars' trolley problem, study says. Mar 1, 2020, 2:30 am* If we steer our trolley onto the computer track, then we could save a significant fraction of 1.25 million annual auto deaths worldwide. To access Lynda.com courses again, please join LinkedIn Learning