Fursty ferrret - quite naive, if I may say so. You have little or no experience of such circumstances. I have spent a working lifetime of being involved in such situations where life or death decisions are made on roads and in the air.
Like it or not - some decisions made by the operator of machines do actually include life or death decisions.
Future autonomous car makers will be obliged to cater for moral dilemmas such as this and it will be interesting to watch how this develops.
Autonomous vehicles may put people in life-or-death situations. Will the outcomes be decided by ethics or data?
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I note that you associate danger or risk with the word 'speed'. Why did you decide that the word 'speed' was incompatible with the situation I described originally? Does driving at 70mph on a dual carriageway - automatically describe the trajectory of the vehicle as dangerous?