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In messy complicated real world always contains people with different agendas, massive uncertainty and disagreement about likely outcomes, moral hazard, and affected people pushing to get their desired result by any means available.
If assume them away, trolley problem has nothing to do with the real world.
Exactly. The central problems of real-world morality center around dealing with the uncertainty, bias and signaling issues of realistic high-stakes scenarios. By assuming all that complexity away trolley problems end up about as relevant as an economics problem without money or preferences.
A more useful research program would focus on probing the effects of uncertainty and socal issues on moral decision-making. But that makes for poor cocktail party conversation.