Stanford CIS

Should a driverless car kill the kid or the retiree?

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"“We mean for that to happen. This premeditation is the difference between manslaughter and murder, a much more serious offense,” wrote Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University.

“Ethical dilemmas are likely not resolvable in a way that everybody agrees with. That’s why they’re dilemmas, exactly because there’s no clear consensus and that there’s good reasons that support different answers,” he told POLITICO in email exchange."

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