Humans also directly suffer consequences for those actions. They show remorse and suffer emotionally attempting to grapple with the outcome of their choice. The legal system takes remorse and suffering into consideration, as it is designed to do.

Do self-driving engineers personally commit to be punished and suffer remorse for their algorithm’s choices? And before you say “it’s not fair, the CEO is at fault!” think about who’s writing the code. The CEO doesn’t make the self-driving car possible, the engineer does.