""Make the ethics programming in an autonomous car transparent in order to set expectations with users and society, and be able to defend those programming decisions very well," is Lin's advice, but the actual morality boundaries are up for grabs.
"It wouldn't be unreasonable to put the safety of the bicyclist over that of drivers," he suggests, adding that the moral and legal principle might be that if you introduce a risk to society, such as a new kind of 'robot car', then you should be the one who bears the brunt of that risk."
- Date Published:03/12/2015
- Original Publication:Tech Radar