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comment by veen
veen  ·  3320 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Self Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

I have that on my motherboard. A slider from 'power-saving' to 'balanced' to 'performance'. I don't notice a damn difference. While that's not such a big deal for motherboards, it's downright insulting when it comes to ethical issues. So you're giving me an option that might influence whether I live or not, and you don't even take it into account?





user-inactivated  ·  3320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dunno man. To be honest with you, this whole concept just feels so above me I don't know how to even begin thinking about it.

veen  ·  3320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's part of the problem - that an engineering problem can be lifted to a philosophical issue. It doesn't really make sense. It's like paying your Uber driver more to kill others instead of sacrificing yourself. Theoretically that might be possible but the real world doesn't work that way.