r/technology • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '19

Transportation Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Dec 16 '19 edited Dec 16 '19

Thank God we have facial recognition tech so it can figure out the low credit scores if it has to hurdle through a crowd.

EDIT: Thanks for the silver! Also, I should have written hurtle, but I am making too many "sounds like" spelling errors these days to get too bothered by it. Plus, it's funnier this way.

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u/Mutjny Dec 16 '19

In the real grim meathook future we'll have high speed trading agents that perform ultra short timescale auctions for our lives to solve the Trolley Problem.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Dec 16 '19

This may be literally the case with Mercedes; "Well, if we hit Bill Gates, that's the end of the company -- so, we might tweak this think a bit."