The question of morality in traffic has always been and remains relevant. With the advancement of technology, this issue is exacerbated because the manufacturers equip their vehicles with unmanned systems. It makes you wonder about how reasonable the system can distinguish between the moral aspects. For example, save someone in an emergency situation - the driver or the pedestrian?
Regarding this issue was carried out large-scale study that revealed the moral standards of people. These results should help educate unmanned vehiclesHow to behave in this or that situation.
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The study involved more than 2 million people around the world. They had to answer 12 questions that were to specifically modeled driving situations. As a result, more than 40 million responses were received.
The main laws of the study
- the priority of human life over animal life;
- priority over more lives less;
- priority to the lives of young people over the life of the older;
- to save the life of the driver or the pedestrian;
- to save the life of a woman or a man.
Global preference of people stopped on the main priorities: human life, not animal; life of the young, not the elderly; saving the greatest number of people.
As it turned out, the results in the different countries were different. significant socio-cultural differences have been identified, so setting future autopilots may vary on morality in different countries.
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