Groan. Are we going to take every college philosophy exercise idea but scratch out "human" and replace it with "robot"?<p>What next - do we need to program airplanes to crash in order to avoid being used as weapons? Cars programmed to torture people to reveal where the nuclear bomb is hidden?<p>More useful, (re)read the Asimov robot series and the effects of the zeroth law of robotics.
Look at the picture in the article[1]. Why is the car programmed to kill the only person actually obeying the law and not standing on the road?<p>1) <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/view_body_embed/public/images/Ethical%20cars.png?itok=A_wye_WL" rel="nofollow">http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/v...</a>