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briandmyers  ·  3757 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should your robot driver kill you to save a child's life?

It's easy to re-phrase the thought experiment without insisting on badly designed auto-drivers, surely.

A child can dash in front of a car from a hidden spot, and eclipse any reasonable braking distance. It's not a moot question - driverless cars WILL need to make these kinds of decisions, eventually - either explicitly or implicitly.