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The everyday ethical challenges of self-driving cars

  • Written 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 ethicalthought 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. But those sorts of...

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