A Huge Global Study On Driverless Car Ethics Found The Elderly Are Expendable

Arizona put the company’s testing program on hold. Photographer: Mark Beach/Fresco News via Bloomberg

In 2016 researchers at the MIT Media Lab launched Moral Machine, a game of ethics which presents players with the kind of road choices which driverless vehicles will soon have to make.

Should a driverless car swerve to save a pedestrian crossing the road illegally, while sacrificing its own passengers?

Or should an autonomous car sacrifice its passengers to save a pedestrian?

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A Huge Global Study On Driverless Car Ethics Found The Elderly Are Expendable

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