The Car That Knew Too Much: Can a Machine Be Moral?

by Jean-Franocois Bonnefon

Book Overview

The inside story of the groundbreaking experiment that captured what people think about the life-and-death dilemmas posed by driverless cars.

Human drivers don't find themselves facing such moral dilemmas as "should I sacrifice myself by driving off a cliff if that could save the life of a little girl on the road?" Human brains aren't fast enough to make that kind of calculation; the car is over the cliff in a nanosecond. A self-driving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045796
• ISBN13: 9780262045797
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.1"