How Will Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions on the Road?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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As carmakers work to get fully self-driving cars on the road, they have to think about the ethical dilemmas that the vehicles might face. While supporters say the tech will make driving safer, autonomous cars may still have to choose between hitting an animal or swerving into traffic. Brett Berk joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss how companies are grappling with these issues. And Gen Z-ers are supposed to be "digital natives.” So why can so few of them touch-type? Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:20.0	It's Friday, August 30th.
0:22.0	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.8	legions of tech savvy gensiers can do anything on a computer except type without
0:31.6	looking at the keys.
0:33.0	How did young people who spend so much time online fail to learn typing?
0:38.0	Plus, carmakers are grappling with the ethical dilemmas self-driving vehicles will face on the road.
0:45.0	We'll tell you how companies, bioethicists, and engineers are approaching some of these thorny
0:50.0	questions.
1:05.0	But first, over the past 25 years, the number of U.S. high schools teaching typing has fallen drastically. According to the US Department of Education, in the year 2000, 44% of students who graduated high school took a keyboarding course. By 2019, just 2.5% of high school
1:17.6	graduates had. That means the generation known for being digital natives could be typing like someone who was just
1:24.5	introduced to a computer. Here to tell us what's going on is our reporter Georgia
1:28.9	Wells. Georgia, why did the number of high school students taking a keyboarding course drop by so much?
1:35.4	Educators tell me that schools have gotten rid of courses and topics that are not explicitly
1:41.5	tested on standardized exams.
1:43.8	And so that typing is not the only casualty there, but typing is one of the significant ones.
1:49.2	People assume that Gen Z kids, because they're these digital natives, will know how to type.
1:56.0	But clearly kids don't just wake up one morning knowing how to type.
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