Question

Let us imagine that we are in year 2030. Self-Driving cars which are just a concept in today's time are now on roads. People like us are buying them for ease and are using it for our daily transits. Of course because of all the features which this car has, it is expensive. Now, let us assume, one day your father is going to office in his self-driving car. He is sitting in the back seat as the car is driving itself. Suddenly, a small boy comes in front of this car. The incident was so sudden that the car is only able to make either of the two choices:

1. Go straight and hit the boy who has come in front of the car and injure him severely.

2. Take a sharp right turn to save the boy and smash the car into a metal pole thus damaging the car as well as injuring the person sitting in it.

With the help of this scenario, we need to understand that the developer of the car goes through all such dilemmas while developing the car's algorithm. Thus, here the morality of the developer gets transferred into the machine as what according to him/her is right would have a higher priority and hence would be the selection made by the machine.

If you were in the place of this developer and if there was no other alternative to the situation, which one of the two would you prioritise and why?​

Answer 1

Answer:

I think that by 2030 everyone should switch to cycles not into cars and bikes or basically any automobile as in JAPAN which is a lot more developed country has switched to bicycles and also e-cycles and few of the citizens have a car. They have made their environment healthy, themselves healthy and most importantly they are not facing the problem of accidents which is a total bias in many countries.