Don’t worry, self-driving cars are likely to be better at ethics than we are

Every few months, there's another story about the vexing issue of ethics in self-driving cars. Here's the latest, in Wired. The stories all pose the same basic questions: What sort of ethical choices will autonomous vehicles make, when forced to make them? More importantly, who decides? Is it up to the engineers who program the software? Does the public get a vote? Or will we let the cars themselves figure it out? I'm a fan of that last option: Let the cars figure it out.

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