Amusingly, the test also wants to know your preferences on men vs women, overweight vs healthy, and poor vs rich. Or at least it’s happy to insinuate such preferences even if you answered all questions using other criteria. I’m surprised the smart folks at MIT didn’t add more questions to unambiguously figure out the user’s criteria whenever possible.
They’re allowing users to build their own scenarios and add them as well, so it looks like the intention is to let the complexity grow over time from a basic starting point.
Actually, I wonder whether they might find that people really don’t want a great deal of complexity in the decision-making process. People might prefer to go with a simple “minimize loss off life, prioritize kids” rule and leave it at that, because we’re used to cars as a physical hazard that kill blindly when they kill at all. People might be more morally comfortable with smart cars that aren’t too smart.
Amusingly, the test also wants to know your preferences on men vs women, overweight vs healthy, and poor vs rich. Or at least it’s happy to insinuate such preferences even if you answered all questions using other criteria. I’m surprised the smart folks at MIT didn’t add more questions to unambiguously figure out the user’s criteria whenever possible.
They’re allowing users to build their own scenarios and add them as well, so it looks like the intention is to let the complexity grow over time from a basic starting point.
Actually, I wonder whether they might find that people really don’t want a great deal of complexity in the decision-making process. People might prefer to go with a simple “minimize loss off life, prioritize kids” rule and leave it at that, because we’re used to cars as a physical hazard that kill blindly when they kill at all. People might be more morally comfortable with smart cars that aren’t too smart.