Tesla cars are programmed to Kill?

Imaging you are being driven in your new Tesla out of the lot. You are driving down the freeway and all of the sudden a group of 3 people run across. What does your car do? Does it brake and swerve possibly killing you. Or does it run the people over. This is the biggest concern about self driving cars. Well, really artificial intelligence.

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Through time we have had many innovations, cars, planes. These are many things we take for granted. But there is a new innovation coming in the very near future. With the introduction of Tesla's autopilot in 2014 people have awed at a future where the car will drive you. No worrying about anything that will happen on the road. But the fact that people don't want to or plainly just don't think of is the programming he hid it. Most of the programming is boring, no one really cares about it. What some lines of code will dictate his life and death. For instance what does your car do if you are about to hit someone J walking?

To answer this question we need to look at the morality behind this. MIT ( the leaders in technological rescearch )argues that the car should save their own lives and run over the J walker. Others say the car would have to unfortunately kill the occupants. This fact may scare people enough to make them second guess the purchase of a self driving car. But if it the fatalities people are concerned about the self driving cars are the best option.  “If fewer people buy self-driving cars because they are programmed to sacrifice their owners, then more people are likely to die because ordinary cars are involved in so many more accidents.” But therein lies the paradox. People are in favor of cars that sacrifice the occupant to save other lives—as long they don’t have to drive one themselves. “Should different decisions be made when children are on board, since they both have a longer time ahead of them than adults, and had less agency in being in the car in the first place” I agree that there needs to be a solution to this problem. But there is no easy way to fix the problem. If you where to "fix" the problem you would need to program a killing machine. until someone figures how to fix this problem then the future of electric self driving vehicles is in priority.

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