There’s an actual trolley problem—a very trivial one—hidden in it as well, though. Do you put your engineering resources into resolving swerve vs not swerve, or do you put that into better avoiding those situations altogether?
Of course, the answer is the latter.
This is also the issue with classical trolley problems. In the trolley problem as stated, subject’s brainfart is resulting in an extra death. Of course a fat man won’t stop a trolley! (It’s pretty easy to state such problems better, but you won’t generate much discussion that way)
Yeah.
There’s an actual trolley problem—a very trivial one—hidden in it as well, though. Do you put your engineering resources into resolving swerve vs not swerve, or do you put that into better avoiding those situations altogether?
Of course, the answer is the latter.
This is also the issue with classical trolley problems. In the trolley problem as stated, subject’s brainfart is resulting in an extra death. Of course a fat man won’t stop a trolley! (It’s pretty easy to state such problems better, but you won’t generate much discussion that way)