How to decide when your self-driving car should kill you

A new article published in Science raises a classical ethical question within the context of the autonomous vehicles reality: should a car sacrifice its driver if doing so will save the lives of many pedestrians? A recent survey shows that people want self-driving cars to be programmed to minimize casualties during a crash even if it causes the death of the rider Trouble is, the same survey shows that people don’t actually want to ride in cars that are programmed this way