Self-driving cars coming. New high-end MBs, Teslas and others have some self-driving logic built in. As the technology matures, and we let the vehicles take over, people like Chris Gerdes and Patrick Lin are thinking about what the ethical implications are for accidents which might happen.

In a July article in the MIT Technology Review, Gerdes considered what might happen when a vehicle is confronted with a horrible situation:

At a recent industry event, Gerdes gave an example of one such scenario: a child suddenly dashing into the road, forcing the self-driving car to choose between hitting the child or swerving into an oncoming van.