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Originally Posted by polak
Or decide who to kill should a child jump out on the road...
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Sorry, that whole scenarios is so outlandishly remote as to be essentially not an issue at all. I doubt that in all the history of the motor vehicle that anyone has ever faced the choice between two different sets of people, one of which must inevitably be killed to save the other. Further, even if it did happen, cars won't "think" like a human so their won't even be any kind of choice involved, it'll just go along a tree of decisions that will end at "slow the vehicle as much as possible before impact with the smallest object among those you must hit", which I guess'll mean Jimmy and Nancy get plowed over.
If you're going to come up with situations where people get killed, look at things more like stupid teenagers playing matador in automated traffic and deliberately trying to cause issues. Dealing with dumb or malicious humans, that's what really stresses automated systems.