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    The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | WIRED

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    30 July 2013


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    If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The car wanted its human driver to retake the wheel, since this particular model wasn’t designed to merge lanes. If we ignored its command a third time, I wondered, would it pull over and start beating us like an angry dad from the front seat? Better to not find out.

    Read more: Patrick Lin on WIRED.



    CIS Blog is produced by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
    CIS Blog is produced by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.



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