"[E]liminating the human factor from road transport may also have some really serious and previously unprecedented consequences to public life.
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"A number of independent surveys have been conducted by several technological institutions to document public opinion on a possible solution to the problem of driverless cars making complex moral decisions like this, but the results have been far from offering a solution. In one such survey, Bonnefon and Co started out with the optimistic idea that people will be more happy to go forward with a solution backed by the majority. As such, they conducted a fairly large survey on hundreds of workers at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, asking them slightly differentiated questions to see how they reacted to the idea of driverless cars making ethical decisions on matters of life and death."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-stark/kill-or-be-killed-driverl_b_9764436.html
Author: Harold Stark
Date: April 25, 2016
"A number of independent surveys have been conducted by several technological institutions to document public opinion on a possible solution to the problem of driverless cars making complex moral decisions like this, but the results have been far from offering a solution. In one such survey, Bonnefon and Co started out with the optimistic idea that people will be more happy to go forward with a solution backed by the majority. As such, they conducted a fairly large survey on hundreds of workers at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, asking them slightly differentiated questions to see how they reacted to the idea of driverless cars making ethical decisions on matters of life and death."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-stark/kill-or-be-killed-driverl_b_9764436.html
Author: Harold Stark
Date: April 25, 2016