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Message: [QUOTE="Eunos_Cosmo, post: 12054836, member: 137826"] I agree. I find these "ethics" questions to be kind of a false binary. It's not even an ethical question in my opinion, it's a calibration question. The 'question' is not between 'careen into the concrete pole' or 'murder innocent pedestrians' but more about how to not do either of those things...I have difficulty imagining a real scenario when there isn't a third option with less dismemberment, and a computer with gigs of ram should be able to find that third option rather more quickly than our lizard brains. I imagine in most cases the car will just be instructed to brake 100%, as swerving is seldom advisable in any case. If that's not enough, then it's likely it was unavoidable. That all being said, I think the real problem (possibly intractable) is making autonomous cars work in situations they were not designed to encounter. Do autonomous cars have any sort of intelligence? Or do they just follow pre-programmed commands based on sensor input? I see this as the biggest obstacle for autonomous cars going faster than 20mph. [/QUOTE]