A closer look
Autonomous vehicles are currently programmed to make highly complex moral decisions in a split second, such as calculating whether it is mathematically better to swerve and hit a barrier to save a pedestrian or protect the passengers inside the car; we have essentially offloaded classical philosophical thought experiments, like the infamous Trolley Problem, to a bunch of sensors and lines of code written by exhausted software engineers heavily caffeinated on energy drinks; it is both fascinating and deeply disturbing that the future of transportation involves your own car quietly calculating your exact net worth in human lives before deciding if you are expendable; someday soon, your fancy electric vehicle might just choose to sacrifice you into a ditch simply because the pedestrian crossing the street had a better credit score
