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Comment author: CronoDAS 28 August 2014 05:23:49AM 2 points [-]

Self-driving cars may someday be put into a position where it has to choose between one of two victims to crash into. This puts programmers of self-driving cars (or even sophisticated crash-avoidance systems for cars that aren't fully autonomous) into the position of having to solve a real-life version of the trolley problem.