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Letter: Cars need safe and legal design more than ethics (3)

Published 14 November 2018

From Larry Stoter, The Narth, Monmouthshire, UK

Questioning people about who they think should be saved in a road accident might be useful in developing some sort of morality basis for driverless cars. But it is odd to frame this in terms of whether pedestrians are criminals or doctors. When an accident is imminent, neither any humans involved nor any controlling artificial intelligence will be in possession of the full facts.

Issue no. 3204 published 17 November 2018

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