How Should Self-Driving Cars Choose Who Not to Kill?

If an automated car had to choose between crashing into a barrier, killing its three female passengers, or running over one child in the street -- which call should it make? When three U.S.-based researchers started thinking about the future of self-driving cars, they wondered how these vehicles should make the tough ethical decisions that humans usually make instinctively. The idea prompted Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, and Iyad Rahwan to design an online quiz called The Moral Machine. Would you run over a man or a woman? By 2069, autonomous vehicles could be the greatest disruptor to transport since the Model T Ford was launched in Detroit in 1908.