You Should Have a Say In Your Robot Car’s Code of Ethics

One solution to this ethical problem is to adopt the same approach in engineering that has been tried and tested in healthcare: a robust standard of informed consent.

Recently,writing in WIRED, ethicist Patrick Lin argued that building a programmable ethics button into future autonomous cars is not the right approach to dealing with the moral nuance of this new technology. But isn’t a car that ignores your moral choices worse? There is a middle path, and we need only look to modern healthcare to find it.