{"id":8806,"date":"2017-11-25T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2017-12-02T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T02:31:11","slug":"ai-decides-who-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/25\/ai-decides-who-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Decides Who Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2017\/11\/23\/self-driving-cars-programmed-decide-who-dies-crash\/891493001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Self-driving cars programmed to decide who dies in a crash<\/h1>\n<p>by Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3veRBB8w8Bo\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Consider this hypothetical:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bright, sunny day and you\u2019re alone in your spanking new self-driving vehicle, sprinting along the two-lane Tunnel of Trees on M-119 high above Lake Michigan north of Harbor Springs. You\u2019re sitting back, enjoying the view. You\u2019re looking out through the trees, trying to get a glimpse of the crystal blue water below you, moving along at the 45-mile-an-hour speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>As you approach a rise in the road, heading south, a school bus appears, driving north, one driven by a human, and it veers sharply toward you. There is no time to stop safely, and no time for you to take control of the car.<\/p>\n<p>Does the car:<\/p>\n<p>A. Swerve sharply into the trees, possibly killing you but possibly saving the bus and its occupants?<\/p>\n<p>B. Perform a sharp evasive maneuver around the bus and into the oncoming lane, possibly saving you, but sending the bus and its driver swerving into the trees, killing her and some of the children on board?<\/p>\n<p>C. Hit the bus, possibly killing you as well as the driver and kids on the bus?<\/p>\n<p>In everyday driving, such no-win choices are may be exceedingly rare but, when they happen, what should a self-driving car \u2014 programmed in advance \u2014 do? Or in any situation \u2014 even a less dire one \u2014 where a moral snap judgment must be made?<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2017\/11\/23\/self-driving-cars-programmed-decide-who-dies-crash\/891493001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at USAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today Self-driving cars programmed to decide who dies in a crash by Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press WASHINGTON \u2014 Consider this hypothetical: It\u2019s a bright, sunny day and you\u2019re alone in your spanking new self-driving vehicle, sprinting along the two-lane Tunnel of Trees on M-119 high above Lake Michigan north of Harbor Springs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}