The Trolley Problem is a decision tree. You decide what’s important, and decide accordingly, it’s a best case of a bad situation matrix. In practical reality, not the hokey artificiality of your theoretical, it very much is solved. Every chess program ever written has solved it. Every war game. It’s actually pretty easy: buy time.
There is NO ethical value judgement while driving. You do NOT run into any version of the Trolley Problem while driving. And even if you did you wouldn’t have any time to realize it until it was too late. Your average accident avoidance situation happens in a distance of 100 to 200 feet, at 40MPH you cover that distance in 2 to 4 seconds. By the time you think “should I hit the little old ladies or the baby” you’ve probably already run over whichever one you were pointing at. You DO NOT face trolley problems EVER. And pretending you do just to complain about coming technology is silly.
>>>”buy time”
If only I could buy more time, I’d never have to solve any problem.
There are 27,000 accidents every day. Someone who says there are never any moral decisions involved is, I believe, perhaps naive - or has never had a dog run out in front of them.
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I should point out that this part of your reply: “You decide what’s important” is a value judgement.