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RE: Self-driving car ethical questions v1
In the autonomous debate, this is a strawman argument. It really is a stupid topic but one that is often pointed at. Mind you, I am not casting this upon your post since you are simply reporting it.
If you asked 100,000 people what they did in that situation when they were driving, almost none would have ever faced. People like to point to the absurd. There is no basis to proclaim that human drivers would chose people or animals over property when in that situation.
Stuff like this distracts from the real challenges with autonomous cars and the acceptance of them.
I totally agree with you and like i wrote, the discussion of the technology is a direct cause of more deaths in the way that it suppresses a superior technology.
No matter my or your opinion, if the public is strongly against something, even a helpful technology, it will take longer to get accepted.
One good example is Golden rice. Even though we have had the technology to grow rice containing Vitamin A (Vit A deficiency causes blindness in millions of people worldwide), it has been suppressed by people with emotional arguments and none-scientific world-views.