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What we don't realize is that there are entire industries that are built around just cars. So for example, if you are not driving the car, why do you need insurance? There's no parking tickets because your driverless car knows where it can and cannot park and goes and finds a spot and moves and so on. If there are truckers that are no longer using rest stops because driverless cars don't have to stop and pee or take a nap, then all of those little rest stops all across America are affected. People aren't stopping to use the restrooms. They're not buying burgers. They're not staying in these hotels, and so on and so forth.

And if you do nothing, here's what will happen: five workers will die.

But if you ask them, "Is it okay to kill one man to save five by pushing the guy?" nine out of ten people will say ...

Josh is, by the way, a philosopher and a neuroscientist, so this gives him special powers. He doesn't sort of sit back in a chair, smoke a pipe and think, "Now why do you have these differences?" He says, "No, I would like to look inside people's heads, because in our heads we may find clues as to where these feelings of revulsion or acceptance come from." In our brains.

If they hear your baby, they're gonna find you and the baby and everyone else, and they're gonna kill everybody. And the only way you can stop this from happening is cover the baby's mouth. But if you do that, the baby's going to smother and die. If you don't cover the baby's mouth, the soldiers are gonna find everybody and everybody's gonna be killed, including you, including your baby.

We talked to him again. He has started a family. He's switched labs from Princeton to Harvard. But that whole time, that interim decade, he has still been thinking and working on the trolley problem.

Oh, there's cars coming! Oh!

Oh, there's cars! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Oh, where's it going?

Oh! Oh, there's a car coming!

Ah!

Hit the brakes! Hit the brakes!

I think you should sacrifice one for the good of the many.

So if it's between one driver and five pedestrians ...

Logically, it would be the driver.

Kill the driver.

Would you want to drive in a car that would potentially sacrifice you to save the lives of more people in order to minimize the total amount of harm? They say ...

Who's gonna buy a car that chooses somebody else over them? Anyhow, he makes that comment, Michael prints it, and a kerfuffle ensues.

I'm the co-director of the GM-CMU Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab.

He is one of the guys that is writing the code that will go inside GM's driverless car. He says yeah, the sensors at the moment on these cars ...

Oh, there's cars coming! Oh! Oh there's cars! Ah!

Feel this!

Oh, dear Jesus! I could never! Ah! Ah! Oh, where's it going? Goddamn, Bill. Oh my God.

So here's the difference—and this is such an interesting difference. Like, "Ah, damn, that's so sad that happened, that that guy got drunk and da da da, and maybe he should go to jail." But, "You mean that the society engineered this in?"

Yes. Oh, this piece was produced by Amanda Aronczyk with help from Bethel Habte. Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from The Moral Machine Group, MIT. Also thanks to Sertac Karaman, Xin Xiang and Roborace for all their help. And I guess we should go now.

What we don't realize is that there are entire industries that are built around just cars. So for example, if you are not driving the car, why do you need insurance? There's no parking tickets because your driverless car knows where it can and cannot park and goes and finds a spot and moves and so on. If there are truckers that are no longer using rest stops because driverless cars don't have to stop and pee or take a nap, then all of those little rest stops all across America are affected. People aren't stopping to use the restrooms. They're not buying burgers. They're not staying in these hotels, and so on and so forth.

And if you do nothing, here's what will happen: five workers will die.

But if you ask them, "Is it okay to kill one man to save five by pushing the guy?" nine out of ten people will say ...

Josh is, by the way, a philosopher and a neuroscientist, so this gives him special powers. He doesn't sort of sit back in a chair, smoke a pipe and think, "Now why do you have these differences?" He says, "No, I would like to look inside people's heads, because in our heads we may find clues as to where these feelings of revulsion or acceptance come from." In our brains.

If they hear your baby, they're gonna find you and the baby and everyone else, and they're gonna kill everybody. And the only way you can stop this from happening is cover the baby's mouth. But if you do that, the baby's going to smother and die. If you don't cover the baby's mouth, the soldiers are gonna find everybody and everybody's gonna be killed, including you, including your baby.

We talked to him again. He has started a family. He's switched labs from Princeton to Harvard. But that whole time, that interim decade, he has still been thinking and working on the trolley problem.

Oh, there's cars coming! Oh!

Oh, there's cars! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Oh, where's it going?

Oh! Oh, there's a car coming!

Ah!

Hit the brakes! Hit the brakes!

I think you should sacrifice one for the good of the many.

So if it's between one driver and five pedestrians ...

Logically, it would be the driver.

Kill the driver.

Would you want to drive in a car that would potentially sacrifice you to save the lives of more people in order to minimize the total amount of harm? They say ...

Who's gonna buy a car that chooses somebody else over them? Anyhow, he makes that comment, Michael prints it, and a kerfuffle ensues.

I'm the co-director of the GM-CMU Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab.

He is one of the guys that is writing the code that will go inside GM's driverless car. He says yeah, the sensors at the moment on these cars ...

Oh, there's cars coming! Oh! Oh there's cars! Ah!

Feel this!

Oh, dear Jesus! I could never! Ah! Ah! Oh, where's it going? Goddamn, Bill. Oh my God.

So here's the difference—and this is such an interesting difference. Like, "Ah, damn, that's so sad that happened, that that guy got drunk and da da da, and maybe he should go to jail." But, "You mean that the society engineered this in?"

Yes. Oh, this piece was produced by Amanda Aronczyk with help from Bethel Habte. Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from The Moral Machine Group, MIT. Also thanks to Sertac Karaman, Xin Xiang and Roborace for all their help. And I guess we should go now.