Should ethics or human intuition drive the moral judgments of driverless cars?

(Frontiers) Driverless cars will encounter situations requiring moral assessment -- and new research suggests that people may not be happy with the decisions their cars make. Experiments designed to test people's reactions to a driving dilemma that endangers human life, revealed a high willingness for self-sacrifice, a consideration of the age of potential victims and swerving onto the sidewalk to save more lives -- intuitions that are sometimes at odds with ethically acceptable behavior or political guidelines.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2JOriVj