What moral decisions should driverless cars make? | Iyad Rahwan

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🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Should a driverless car kill you if it means saving five pedestrians? In this primer on the social dilemmas of driverless cars, Iyad Rahwan explores how the technology will challenge our morality and explains his work collecting data from real people on the ethical trade-offs we're willing (and not willing) to make.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features computational social scientist Iod Rawan, recorded live at TEDx Cambridge 2016.
0:10.2	Today I'm going to talk about technology and society.
0:16.2	The Department of Transport estimated that last year, 35,000 people died from traffic crashes in the US alone.
0:25.6	Worldwide, 1.2 million people die every year in traffic accidents.
0:31.3	If there was a way, we can eliminate 90 percent of those accidents.
0:35.5	Would you support it?
0:37.4	Of course you would. This is what driverless car technology promises to achieve. 90 percent of those accidents, would you support it?
0:37.5	Of course you would.
0:38.8	This is what driverless car technology promises to achieve,
0:42.4	by eliminating the main source of accidents,
0:45.3	human error.
0:47.6	Now picture yourself in a driverless car in the year 2030,
0:53.1	sitting back and watching this vintage TEDx Cambridge video.
0:59.0	All of a sudden, the car experiences mechanical failure
1:02.0	and is unable to stop.
1:04.0	If the car continues,
1:06.0	it will crash into a bunch of pedestrians
1:10.0	crossing the street.
1:12.8	But the car may swerve hitting one bystander, killing them to save the pedestrians.
1:19.5	What should the car do and who should decide?
1:23.2	What if instead the car could swerve into a wall crashing and killing you the passenger
1:29.5	in order to solve to save those pedestrians?
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