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What moral decisions should driverless cars make?

Iyad Rahwan · TED

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About

Should your driverless car kill you if it means saving five pedestrians? In this primer on the social dilemmas of driverless cars, Iyad Rahwan explores how the technology will challenge our morality and explains his work collecting data from real people on the ethical trade-offs we're willing (and not willing) to make.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxCambridge
Speaker
Iyad Rahwan
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Law, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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