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Comment author: Lumifer 14 May 2014 03:42:23PM 2 points [-]

Conventional mortality would dictate that the car minimize global loss of life

I don't know about that. "Conventional morality" is not a well-formed or a coherent system and there are a lot of situations where other factors would override minimizing loss of life.

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Comment author: Cube 14 May 2014 03:47:37PM -1 points [-]

What kind of things override loss of life and and can be widely agreed upon?

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Comment author: Cube 14 May 2014 03:22:37PM 0 points [-]

Conventional mortality would dictate that the car minimize global loss of life, followed by permanent brain damage, permanent body damage. I think in the future that other algorithms will be illegal but existent.

However. The lives each car would have the most effect on would be those inside of it. So in most situations all actions would be directed towards said persons.