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• Autores: Sandy Ong
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3107, 2017, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On the night of Sept 3, 2010, 33-year-old Brian Wood was driving along a highway in Washington state. Asleep in the passenger seat was his wife Erin, seven months pregnant with their first child. The couple were on their way from Vancouver, Canada, to spend time at her parents' vacation home by the picturesque Puget Sound. Out of nowhere, a Chevy Blazer came hurtling towards them. By the time Wood saw it, it was too late. He braked hard and swerved right to take the brunt of the impact. He died instantly, but his wife and their unbprn daughter survived. Here, Ong asks whether, to do the right thing, autonomous cars need to be programmed with human ethics and how they even get started