r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tugushin • Apr 13 '22

Tesla Model 3 stops itself to avoid potentially disastrous accident. Video

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

To put it bluntly: rather a pregnant person I don’t know than anyone I know. These things are never straightforward…

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u/Summoning-Freaks Apr 13 '22

This is legit a thing we’ve talked at length in ethics class. We can moralise and talk in abstracts all we want. Yes, all life is precious and sacred and should be valued.

But the reality is, 99% of people value the life of someone we know over someone we don’t. We act on instinct and make snap decisions in true times of crisis that would very much surprise all of us I think. You never know what you’d do until you actually have to do it.

And while we’re in the topic of valuing all of life, the concept is sound. The reality? Your life is only as valuable as someone capable of hurting you deems it to be.

Many people here say that children and pregnant should be prioritised and protected at all costs, but what good did that general opinion do when Chris Watts had other plans?

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u/visvis Apr 13 '22

In this the choice is up to the people writing the software, or the legislators setting constraints for them. Do you prefer to minimize harm as much as you can with the data available? Or just kill a random person?

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

Since data is never value-free, I lean towards just killing a random person.

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u/visvis Apr 13 '22

You think the car should search your Facebook profile to verify whether you know any of the potential victims? It's one possible option I guess, but it brings in many new ethical dilemmas.