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THE CAR THAT KNEW TOO MUCH - JEAN-FRANCOIS BONN...

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 car  on the other hand 
can compute fast enough to make such a decision--to do whatever humans have programmed it to
do. But what should that be? This book investigates how people want driverless cars to decide
matters of life and death. In The Car That Knew Too Much  psychologist Jean-François Bonnefon
reports on a groundbreaking experiment that captured what people think cars should do in
situations where not everyone can be saved. Sacrifice the passengers for pedestrians? Save
children rather than adults? Kill one person so many can live? Bonnefon and his collaborators
Iyad Rahwan and Azim Shariff designed the largest experiment in moral psychology ever: the
Moral Machine  an interactive website that has allowed people --eventually  millions of them 
from 233 countries and territories--to make choices within detailed accident scenarios.
Bonnefon discusses the responses (reporting  among other things  that babies  children  and
pregnant women were most likely to be saved)  the media frenzy over news of the experiment  and
scholarly responses to it. Boosters for driverless cars argue that they will be in fewer
accidents than human-driven cars. It's up to humans to decide how many fatal accidents we will
allow these cars to have.

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