Nowadays we might have heard about the self-driving cars but still, we don't know what aspects it is useful to us in future and what developments are going in the research area, so today I'm going to tell you all about an update in this research.
Scientists have developed a system that lets users of driverless cars take the moral decision of who should survive a potential car crash.
According to the previous research, most people think a driverless car should be utilitarian, taking actions to minimise overall harm, which might mean sacrificing its own passengers in certain situations to save lives of pedestrians.
However, while people agreed to this in principle they also said they would never get a car that was prepared to kill them.
"We wanted to explore what would happen if the control and the responsibility for a cars' actions were given back to the driver," said Guiseppe Contessa of the University of Bologna in Italy.
Researchers designed a dial that switches a car's setting along a spectrum ranging from 'full altruist' to 'full egoist', with the middle setting being 'impartial'. The ethical knob would work not only for self-driving cars but for all areas that are becoming increasingly autonomous, the 'New Scientist' reported.
"The knob tells an autonomous car the value that the driver gives to his or her life relative to the lives of others," Contessa said. The car would use this information to calculate the actions it will execute, taking into the account probability that the passengers or other parties might suffer harm as a consequence of its decision.
Further details stay tuned...
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