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Letter: Cars need safe and legal design more than ethics (5)

Published 14 November 2018

From Steve Dalton, Chipstead, Kent, UK

We are asked whose life our driverless car should spare in a crash: a family of four in the car or “a pregnant woman, a doctor and a criminal” who are standing nearby? Is the latter one, two or three people? Does the car's decision depend on how stereotypically it thinks?

Issue no. 3204 published 17 November 2018

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