Mercedes Self-Driving Car Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver

Ronseal pretty much.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3064539/self-driving-mercedes-will-be-programmed-to-sacrifice-pedestrians-to-save-the-driver

TBH I was going to say, isn’t this old news and then I saw
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Yikes serves me right for copying things straight from twitter :smiley:

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I’ve noticed one site (maybe the Guardian’s?) actually has this thing pop up now saying “This article is more than a year old” which I have appreciated more than once!

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I feel like it’s passive-aggressively saying - “you’re about to angrily fire this off into your echo chamber aren’t you? Well, before you do…”

Ha ha. But it’s right isn’t it?

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oh yes

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