Google prototype self-driving car [Agence France-Presse]
By Johannes Himmelreich, Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellow, Stanford University McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Decisions made by engineers today will determine how all cars drive. Grendelkhan, CC BY-SA A lot of discussion and ethical thought about self-driving cars have focused on tragic dilemmas, like hypotheticals in which a car has to decide whether to run over a group of schoolchildren or plunge off a cliff, killing its own occupants.
