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Ethics of Self-Driving Cars

April 27th, 2016

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Stephen Hoffman

The old saw that computers are only as good as the information humans put into them applies to autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles. What decisions are autonomous vehicles programmed to make and who decides what is right and what is wrong?

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Tags: autonomous cars, autopilot, car accident, Google Car, liability, self-driving cars, Tesla

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