| Written for TF1 | 2016-06-25T14: 01: 10.239Z , updated 2016-06-26T08: 39: 25.592Z
the future autonomous vehicles will make vital decisions in critical situations. The sacrifice of the passengers on board could be the preferred option. And ethics in all this
The development of autonomous cars – they do not need the intervention of Man – raises a central ethical dilemma: how they should react in case of danger unavoidable ? A question that must be answered before that driverless cars will arrive in the public space.
An almost total optimization
Driverless Vehicles are almost to the point technically, with some exceptions. According to some studies, thanks to them, nearly 90% of road accidents could be avoided, pollution would be reduced and the traffic thinned. But in town, autonomous cars “ sometimes have to choose between two evils, like flipping pedestrians or sacrifice themselves and their passengers to save these pedestrians ” write scientific journal Science
a question ethics
the problem is: is it ethical to sacrifice one person to save ten ? Researchers from the University of Toulouse, Oregon and MIT published the results of a study about the unmanned cars. They asked 2,000 Americans to choose which among pedestrians and passengers have to be sacrificed if an autonomous car can avoid a catastrophic collision
Il Saving pedestrian
75% of respondents, survival pedestrians must pass before the driver , and by extension, passengers of the autonomous car. But if the five pedestrians tumble on the road are thieves, it is necessary that the people on the autonomous vehicle may be endangered?
An insoluble problem?
Among the people sought by researchers from universities triptych, less than 30% are in favor of buying a vehicle capable of sacrificing to save the lives of others. So what (s) solution (s) to take? Hard to say. Jean-François Bonnefon, Doctor of Psychology said: “ so far, the problems posed by the machines were technical .” Now, “ the development of artificial intelligence may face blockages that can-beings raised by experts .” This thorny issue has not finished stirring the debate.
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