[Informatics] Ethical dilemmas - who is responsible for the first death caused by a self-driving vehicle?

[ken price]

Yep, it had to happen.


The assumption that someone should be at fault at all is interesting.

About 10 people per year in Australia die from bee-stings. Who is at fault?
About 750 die in accidental falls. Who is at fault?
About 25 die from falling off a chair. And so on.


So, independently of the classic Trolley Problem that programming
autonomous cars raises, are we just projecting old mindsets onto a new
problem?



kp

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> It was bound to happen eventually...
>
> "A TESLA MODEL S driver using the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature
> died when the car hit an 18-wheeler, the first known fatality involving
> technology that remains in beta testing."
>
> Read more...
>
> https://www.wired.com/2016/06/teslas-autopilot-first-deadly-crash/
>
> --
>
> Mark Kelly
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>
>
>
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