If it was my car I'd certainly prefer it to save my life over strangers, who'd buy a car knowing that at the first sign of trouble it'd ram you into a wall?!
yeah and the 2 takeaways were
1) most responders thought that the car and passenger should be sacrificed in favor of the pedestrian (common sense would agree, as the passenger is making a conscious choice to travel in a risky mode of transport, versus a pedestrian exercising their basic human right to exist and walk on the sidewalk, etc.)
2) most responders also said that they wouldn't buy a self-driving car, so at least they are consistent lol...
In my opinion, the car should choose the option such as to minimize damage for the person doing the correct thing. If someone walks out into oncoming traffic then there are consequences involved. However, if the car made a miscalculation then there is not much corrective action that can be done since it has already misjudged the situation and thus its world view is no longer reliable. It's impossible to say whether any corrective action the car makes will actually improve the situation since clearly objects are not what/where it thought they were.
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2) most responders also said that they wouldn't buy a self-driving car, so at least they are consistent lol...