Re:The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
by kerkeslager on Saturday July 16, 2016 @03:20AM
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> There have been some discussions about the ethics of self-driving cars if it should sacrifice the lives of the people in the cars to save more lives. In a right to repair/modify wouldn't a lot of people pay to have the algorithm changed for their car to always favor the people in the car no matter what?
How does this differ from those people making the same choice behind the wheel?
To me, the issue isn't the trolley problem: we haven't come up with a definitive answer for that since it was proposed in 1967 and I doubt we will before self-driving cars are commonplace. The question for me is: when my car is confronted with the trolley problem (and many others), is the decision made by me or by a corporation?
How does this differ from those people making the same choice behind the wheel?
To me, the issue isn't the trolley problem: we haven't come up with a definitive answer for that since it was proposed in 1967 and I doubt we will before self-driving cars are commonplace. The question for me is: when my car is confronted with the trolley problem (and many others), is the decision made by me or by a corporation?