Who should be spared if a driverless car has to make a fatal choice, in one chart
November 06, 2018 at 15:30 PM EST
The “trolley problem” is a thought experiment in ethics that basically asks what you would do if you saw a runaway trolley heading toward five people tied up on the tracks but could divert the train so that it would kill only one person on a side track. MIT researchers conducted a sweeping study to find out global preferences.