>>>”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.
:)
There aren’t. Most accidents involve no option, or at least no option between different things to hit. It’s simple factual reality. I’ve had dogs run out in front of, slammed on the brake. Been in accidents, ones I saw coming and ones I didn’t. I never had, and neither have you, the option between killing to different people and no ability to avoid it entirely. There’s a reason why the setup to the Trolley Problem involves so many odd ball circumstances, first it’s a trolley on tracks so you have limited mobility, no brakes, people are tied down, etc etc etc. Because in reality you have many many more option. Which is why I point out that on the off chance you wind up in a real world Trolley-ish problem the answer is ALWAYS the same: aim for the one furthest away, giving you more time to slow down, giving them more time to get out of the way, giving you less inertia to do less damage.
Buy time. It is the answer in reality.