Self-Driving Car Dilemma: Artificial Intelligence May Be Forced To Choose Between Saving Passengers Or Pedestrians

Self-driving cars may be the new direction for the automotive industry, even though realistically it could be decades before we start seeing them all around us. That isn't stopping some from pondering a moral dilemma these cars may pose. When you take the control away from the driver, you are giving the motor vehicle power to make judgment calls. In many ways, you give a machine the power to choose your fate in specific scenarios. This is the very thing physicist Stephen Hawking warned us about, as he believes artificial intelligence could lead to a very real Terminator scenario.