When humans drive cars, we can choose our reactions to certain dangers while on the road. But what does a driverless car do?

After all, it doesn’t rely on instinct — it relies on code.

According to New Scientist magazine, a 2015 study found that most people think driverless cars should take action to minimize harm; but this could mean choosing your life over, say, that of a pregnant woman crossing the street. And while people agreed with the concept of minimal harm, they also said they would never get into a car that would choose to kill them.

So, Giuseppe Contissa and his colleagues at the University of Bologna in Italy came up with a “solution” of sorts: an “ethical knob” that would allow driverless car owners to program their vehicles to be “altruistic”... Leer Más