Game Theory and the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars
We are rapidly approaching a world of self-driving cars. Experts contend that as compared with their human-driven counterparts, these computer-driven machines promise to save vast numbers of human lives. We also know that self-driving cars will inevitably get into accidents, sometimes with deadly consequences. As with human-drivers, self-driving operating systems will occasionally confront tragic choices, choices that ultimately rest on very human programmers. Analysts often