When it comes to autonomous cars, get used to hearing about ‘the trolley problem.’ A thought experiment in ethics, the basis of the problem is as follows: A runaway train is about to mow down five ...

The trolley problem is a classic thought experiment in ethics, which asks you to imagine a trolley headed toward a track that five people are bound to. If you pull a lever, you can redirect the ...

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There was a mention of the classic trolley problem in your look at a new book on morality. This left me wondering whether – rather than choose to push an innocent bystander into the path of the ...

Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...