It’s in the best interests of self-driving car manufacturers to choose the lives of their customers over others. It’s a matter of business, not ethics. But what will a self-driving car do if the pedestrian has more invested in the company then the driver? The correct business choice may be to kill the driver to keep the pedestrian safe. Once this decision is made, cars have chosen a value for each life. This is no longer a moral dilemma, but a simple calculation of scores, where the value of each life is based exclusively on its value to the manufacturer. When self-driving cars have this data, it will put a bounty on the heads of every person, place, and thing that is inversely correlated to how much money they are spending. If enough accidents start happening, people may start investing in manufacturers just to stay safe from these four-wheeled bounty hunters.
It’s in the best interests of self-driving car manufacturers to choose the lives of their customers over pedestrians. It’s a matter of business, not ethics.
It’s in the best interests of self-driving car manufacturers to choose the lives of their customers over others. It’s a matter of business, not ethics. But what will a self-driving car do if the pedestrian has more invested in the company then the driver? The correct business choice may be to kill the driver to keep the pedestrian safe. Once this decision is made, cars have chosen a value for each life. This is no longer a moral dilemma, but a simple calculation of scores, where the value of each life is based exclusively on its value to the manufacturer. When self-driving cars have this data, it will put a bounty on the heads of every person, place, and thing that is inversely correlated to how much money they are spending. If enough accidents start happening, people may start investing in manufacturers just to stay safe from these four-wheeled bounty hunters.