Rsp7ReyWriter

1. Does it help us to paint car manufacturers as unethical, more interested in profit than saving lives? The problem, of course, is that it might actually turn out that programmed cars are 'safer' than humanly-driven ones. I saw a ton of commercials last night extolling the safety of the 'safety features' on a whole host of new cars that stop and even steer on their own, to "avoid accidents".

In other words: these businessmen are not acting clearly unethically just to make money, and indiscriminately killing people, they are actually trying to save lives by programming cars to avoid certain accidents. There are some situations, however - true ethical dilemmas - that force us to analyze this situation ethically.

Looking at the situation from that dilemma standpoint: we can either improve safety generally by reducing common human error while risking occasional death to a limited number, or we can leave things as they are, and continue to suffer from deadly accidents caused by otherwise over-rideable human error.