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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="The_Trolley_Problem_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The Trolley Problem (disambiguation)">The Trolley Problem (disambiguation)</a>.</div>
<p>The <b>trolley problem</b> is a series of <a href="Thought_experiment" title="Thought experiment">thought experiments</a> in <a href="Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a>, <a href="Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> and <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> involving stylized <a href="Ethical_dilemma" title="Ethical dilemma">ethical dilemmas</a> of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. The series usually begins with a <a href="Scenario_(vehicular_automation)" title="Scenario (vehicular automation)">scenario</a> in which a <a href="Runaway_train" title="Runaway train">runaway</a> trolley (<a href="Tram" title="Tram">tram</a>) or train is on course to collide with and kill a number of people (traditionally five) down the railway track, but a driver or bystander can intervene and divert the vehicle to kill just one person on a different track. Then other variations of the runaway vehicle, and analogous life-and-death <a href="Dilemma" title="Dilemma">dilemmas</a> (medical, judicial, etc.) are posed, each containing the option either to do nothing—in which case several people will be killed—or to intervene and sacrifice one initially "safe" person to save the others.
</p><p>Opinions on the ethics of each scenario turn out to be sensitive to details of the story that may seem immaterial to the abstract dilemma. The question of formulating a general principle that can account for the differing judgments arising in different variants of the story was raised in 1967 as part of an analysis of <a href="Abortion_debate" title="Abortion debate">debates on abortion</a> and the <a href="Principle_of_double_effect" title="Principle of double effect">doctrine of double effect</a> by the English philosopher <a href="Philippa_Foot" title="Philippa Foot">Philippa Foot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Philippa_Foot_1978_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philippa_Foot_1978-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later dubbed "the trolley problem" by <a href="Judith_Jarvis_Thomson" title="Judith Jarvis Thomson">Judith Jarvis Thomson</a> in a 1976 article that catalyzed a large literature, the subject refers to the meta-problem of why different judgements are arrived at in particular instances.
</p><p>Thomson<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Judith_Jarvis_Thomson_1985_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Judith_Jarvis_Thomson_1985-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the philosophers <a href="Frances_Kamm" title="Frances Kamm">Frances Kamm</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Peter_Unger" title="Peter Unger">Peter Unger</a> have analyzed the trolley problem extensively.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thomson's 1976 article initiated the literature on the trolley problem as a subject in its own right. Characteristic of this literature are colourful and increasingly absurd alternative scenarios in which the sacrificed person is instead pushed onto the tracks as a way to stop the trolley, has his organs harvested to save transplant patients, or is killed in more indirect ways that complicate the chain of <a href="Causality" title="Causality">causation</a> and responsibility.
</p><p>Earlier forms of individual trolley scenarios antedated Foot's publication. <a href="Frank_Chapman_Sharp" title="Frank Chapman Sharp">Frank Chapman Sharp</a> included a version in a moral questionnaire given to undergraduates at the <a href="University_of_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin">University of Wisconsin</a> in 1905. In this variation, the railway's <a href="Switchman" title="Switchman">switchman</a> controlled the switch, and the lone individual to be sacrificed (or not) was the switchman's child.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German philosopher of law <a href="Karl_Engisch" title="Karl Engisch">Karl Engisch</a> discussed a similar dilemma in his <a href="Habilitation_thesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Habilitation thesis">habilitation thesis</a> in 1930, as did the German legal scholar Hans Welzel in a work from 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his commentary on the <a href="Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a>, published in 1953, <a href="Avrohom_Yeshaya_Karelitz" title="Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz">Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz</a> considered the question of whether it is ethical to deflect a projectile from a larger crowd toward a smaller one.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, in <a href="The_Strike_(Westinghouse_Studio_One)" title="The Strike (Westinghouse Studio One)"><i>The Strike</i></a>, a television play broadcast in the United States on 7 June 1954, a commander in the <a href="Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> must choose between ordering an air strike on an encroaching enemy force, at the cost of his own 20-man patrol unit; and calling off the strike, risking the lives of the main army of 500 men.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Beginning in 2001, the trolley problem and its variants have been used in empirical research on <a href="Moral_psychology" title="Moral psychology">moral psychology</a>. It has been a topic of popular books.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Trolley-style scenarios also arise in discussing the ethics of <a href="Autonomous_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous vehicle">autonomous vehicle</a> design, which may require programming to choose whom or what to strike when a <a href="Traffic_collision" title="Traffic collision">collision</a> appears to be unavoidable.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recently, the trolley problem has also become an <a href="Internet_meme" title="Internet meme">Internet meme</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_dilemma">Original dilemma</h2></div>
<p>Foot's version of the thought experiment, now known as the "trolley driver", ran as follows:
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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Suppose that a judge or magistrate is faced with rioters demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime and threatening otherwise to take their own bloody revenge on a particular section of the community. The real culprit being unknown, the judge sees himself as able to prevent the bloodshed only by framing some innocent person and having him executed. Beside this example is placed another in which a pilot whose airplane is about to crash is deciding whether to steer from a more to a less inhabited area. To make the parallel as close as possible, it may rather be supposed that he is the driver of a runaway tram, which he can only steer from one narrow track on to another; five men are working on one track and one man on the other; anyone on the track he enters is bound to be killed. In the case of the riots, the mob have five hostages, so that in both examples, the exchange is supposed to be one man's life for the lives of five.<sup id="cite_ref-Philippa_Foot_1978_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philippa_Foot_1978-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>A <a href="Utilitarianism" title="Utilitarianism">utilitarian</a> view asserts that it is obligatory to steer to the track with one man on it. According to classical utilitarianism, such a decision would be not only permissible, but, morally speaking, the better option (than other option being no action at all).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This fact makes diverting the trolley obligatory. An alternative viewpoint is that since moral wrongs are already in place in the situation, moving to another track constitutes a participation in the moral wrong, making one partially responsible for the death when otherwise no one would be responsible. An opponent of action may also point to the <a href="Commensurability_(ethics)" title="Commensurability (ethics)">incommensurability</a> of human lives. Under some interpretations of <a href="Duty" title="Duty">moral obligation</a>, simply being present in this situation and being able to influence its outcome constitutes an obligation to participate. If this is the case, then doing nothing would be considered an immoral act.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Empirical_research">Empirical research</h2></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Moral_psychology" title="Moral psychology">Moral psychology</a> and <a href="Dual_process_theory_(moral_psychology)" title="Dual process theory (moral psychology)">Dual process theory (moral psychology)</a></div>
<p>In 2001 the psychologist <a href="Joshua_Greene_(psychologist)" title="Joshua Greene (psychologist)">Joshua Greene</a> and colleagues published the results of the first significant empirical investigation of people's responses to trolley problems.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using <a href="Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging" title="Functional magnetic resonance imaging">functional magnetic resonance imaging</a>, they demonstrated that "personal" dilemmas (like pushing a man off a footbridge) preferentially engage brain regions associated with emotion, whereas "impersonal" dilemmas (like diverting the trolley by flipping a switch) preferentially engaged regions associated with controlled reasoning. On these grounds, they advocate for the <a href="Dual_process_theory_(moral_psychology)" title="Dual process theory (moral psychology)">dual-process account of moral decision-making</a>. Since then, numerous other studies have employed trolley problems to study moral judgement, investigating topics like the role and influence of stress,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> emotional state,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Impression_management" title="Impression management">impression management</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> levels of anonymity,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> different types of <a href="Brain_damage" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain damage">brain damage</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> physiological arousal,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> different neurotransmitters,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and genetic factors<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on responses to trolley dilemmas.
</p><p>Trolley problems have been used as a measure of utilitarianism, but their usefulness for such purposes has been criticized.<sup id="cite_ref-Bauman2014_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bauman2014-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kahane2018_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kahane2018-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kahane2015_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kahane2015-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2017 a group led by <a href="Michael_Stevens_(YouTuber)" title="Michael Stevens (YouTuber)">Michael Stevens</a>, a <a href="YouTuber" title="YouTuber">YouTuber</a> also known as <a href="Vsauce_Michael" class="mw-redirect" title="Vsauce Michael">Vsauce</a>, performed the first realistic trolley-problem experiment. Subjects were placed alone in what they thought was a train-switching station, and shown footage they believed to be real (but was pre-recorded) of a train going down a track, with five workers on the main track, and one on the secondary track; the participants had the option to pull the lever to divert the train toward the secondary track. Five of the seven participants did not pull the lever.<sup id="cite_ref-VSauce_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VSauce-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Survey_data">Survey data</h3></div>
<p>The trolley problem has been the subject of many surveys in which about 90% of respondents have chosen to kill the one and save the five.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the situation is modified where the one sacrificed for the five was a relative or romantic partner, respondents are much less likely to be willing to sacrifice the one life.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A 2009 survey by David Bourget and <a href="David_Chalmers" title="David Chalmers">David Chalmers</a> shows that 68% of professional philosophers would switch (sacrifice the one individual to save five lives) in the case of the trolley problem, 8% would not switch, and the remaining 24% had another view or could not answer.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism">Criticism</h3></div>
<p>In a 2014 paper published in the <i>Social and Personality Psychology Compass</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Bauman2014_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bauman2014-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> researchers criticized the use of the trolley problem, arguing, among other things, that the scenario it presents is too extreme and unconnected to real-life moral situations to be useful or educational.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In her 2017 paper, Nassim JafariNaimi<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> lays out the reductive nature of the trolley problem in framing ethical problems that serves to uphold an impoverished version of utilitarianism. She argues that the popular argument that the trolley problem can serve as a template for algorithmic morality is based on fundamentally flawed premises that serve the most powerful with potentially dire consequences on the future of cities.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In his book <i>On Human Nature</i> (2017) <a href="Roger_Scruton" title="Roger Scruton">Sir Roger Scruton</a> criticizes the usage of ethical dilemmas such as the trolley problem and their usage by philosophers such as <a href="Derek_Parfit" title="Derek Parfit">Derek Parfit</a> and <a href="Peter_Singer" title="Peter Singer">Peter Singer</a> as ways of illustrating their ethical views. Scruton writes, "These 'dilemmas' have the useful character of eliminating from the situation just about every morally relevant relationship and reducing the problem to one of arithmetic alone." Scruton believes that just because one would choose to change the track so that the train hits the one person instead of the five does not mean that they are necessarily a <a href="Consequentialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequentialist">consequentialist</a>. As a way of showing the flaws in consequentialist responses to ethical problems, Scruton points out paradoxical elements of belief in utilitarianism and similar beliefs. He believes that <a href="Robert_Nozick" title="Robert Nozick">Robert Nozick</a>'s <a href="Experience_machine" title="Experience machine">experience machine</a> thought experiment definitively disproves <a href="Hedonism" title="Hedonism">hedonism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 2017 article <i>The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs,</i> Masahiro Morioka considers the dropping of atomic bombs as an example of the trolley problem and points out that there are five "problems of the trolley problem", namely, 1) rarity, 2) inevitability, 3) safety zone, 4) possibility of becoming a victim, and 5) the lack of perspective of the dead victims who were deprived of freedom of choice.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In a 2018 article published in <i>Psychological Review</i>, researchers pointed out that, as measures of utilitarian decisions, sacrificial dilemmas such as the trolley problem measure only one facet of proto-utilitarian tendencies, namely permissive attitudes toward instrumental harm, while ignoring impartial concern for the greater good. As such, the authors argued that the trolley problem provides only a partial measure of utilitarianism.<sup id="cite_ref-Kahane2018_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kahane2018-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_problems">Related problems</h2></div>
<p>The basic Switch form of the trolley problem also supports comparison to other, related dilemmas:
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Fat_Man">The Fat Man</h3></div>
<blockquote class="templatequote"><p>As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by putting something very heavy in front of it. As it happens, there is a fat man next to you – your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed?</p></blockquote>
<p>Resistance to this course of action seems strong; when asked, a majority of people will approve of pulling the switch to save a net of four lives, but will disapprove of pushing the fat man to save a net of four lives.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This has led to attempts to find a relevant moral distinction between the two cases.
</p><p>One possible distinction could be that in the first case, one does not intend harm towards anyone – harming the one is just a <a href="Unintended_consequence" class="mw-redirect" title="Unintended consequence">side effect</a> of switching the trolley away from the five. However, in the second case, harming the one is an integral part of the plan to save the five. This solution is essentially an application of the <a href="Doctrine_of_double_effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctrine of double effect">doctrine of double effect</a>, which says that one may take action that has bad side effects, but deliberately intending harm (even for good causes) is wrong. So, the action is permissible even if the harm to the innocent person is foreseen, so long as it is not intended. This is an argument which <a href="Shelly_Kagan" title="Shelly Kagan">Shelly Kagan</a> considers (and ultimately rejects) in his first book <i>The Limits of Morality</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Fat_Villain">The Fat Villain</h3></div>
<p>This variation is similar to <i>The Fat Man</i>, with the additional assertion that the fat man who may be pushed is a villain who is responsible for the whole situation: the fat man was the one who tied five people to the track, and sent a trolley in their direction with the intention of killing them. In this variation, a majority of people are willing to push the fat man.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Unlike in the previous scenario, pushing the fat villain to stop the trolley may be seen as a form of <a href="Retributive_justice" title="Retributive justice">retributive justice</a> or <a href="Self-defense" title="Self-defense">self-defense</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Implications_for_autonomous_vehicles">Implications for autonomous vehicles</h2></div>
<p>Variants of the original "trolley driver" dilemma arise in the design of software to control <a href="Autonomous_car" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous car">autonomous cars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Situations are anticipated where a potentially fatal collision appears to be unavoidable, but in which choices made by the car's <a href="Software" title="Software">software</a>, such as into whom or what to crash, can affect the particulars of the deadly outcome. For example, should the software value the safety of the car's occupants more, or less, than that of potential victims outside the car.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A platform called <a href="Moral_Machine" title="Moral Machine">Moral Machine</a><sup id="cite_ref-Moral_Machine_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moral_Machine-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was created by <a href="MIT_Media_Lab" title="MIT Media Lab">MIT Media Lab</a> to allow the public to express their opinions on what decisions autonomous vehicles should make in scenarios that use the trolley problem paradigm. Analysis of the data collected through Moral Machine showed broad differences in relative preferences among different countries.<sup id="cite_ref-Awad2018_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Awad2018-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other approaches make use of virtual reality to assess human behaviour in experimental settings.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, some argue that the investigation of trolley-type cases is not necessary to address the ethical problem of driverless cars, because the trolley cases have a serious practical limitation. It would need to be a top-down plan in order to fit the current approaches of addressing emergencies in <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Also, a question remains of whether the law should dictate the ethical standards that all autonomous vehicles must use, or whether individual autonomous car owners or drivers should determine their car's ethical values, such as favoring safety of the owner or the owner's family over the safety of others.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although most people would not be willing to use an automated car that might sacrifice themselves in a life-or-death dilemma, some believe the somewhat counterintuitive claim that using mandatory ethics values would nevertheless be in their best interest. According to Jan Gogoll and Julian F. Müller, "the reason is, simply put, that [personalized ethics settings] would most likely result in a <a href="Prisoner%E2%80%99s_dilemma" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoner’s dilemma">prisoner’s dilemma</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2016 the <a href="German_federal_government" class="mw-redirect" title="German federal government">German federal government</a> appointed a commission to study the ethical implications of autonomous driving.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BMVI-rules_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMVI-rules-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The commission adopted 20 rules to be implemented in the laws that will govern the ethical choices that autonomous vehicles will make.<sup id="cite_ref-BMVI-rules_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMVI-rules-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 10–13">: 10–13 </span></sup> Relevant to the trolley dilemma is this rule:
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<p>8. Genuine dilemmatic decisions, such as a decision between one human life and another, depend on the actual specific situation, incorporating “unpredictable” behaviour by parties affected. They can thus not be clearly standardized, nor can they be programmed such that they are ethically unquestionable. Technological systems must be designed to avoid accidents. However, they cannot be standardized to a complex or intuitive assessment of the impacts of an accident in such a way that they can replace or anticipate the decision of a responsible driver with the moral capacity to make correct judgements. It is true that a human driver would be acting unlawfully if he killed a person in an emergency to save the lives of one or more other persons, but he would not necessarily be acting culpably. Such legal judgements, made in retrospect and taking special circumstances into account, cannot readily be transformed into abstract/general ex ante appraisals and thus also not into corresponding programming activities. …<sup id="cite_ref-BMVI-rules_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMVI-rules-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 11">: 11 </span></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
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<ul><li><i><a href="Carry-On" title="Carry-On">Carry-On</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Lesser_of_two_evils_principle" title="Lesser of two evils principle">Lesser of two evils principle</a></li>
<li><a href="Lifeboat_ethics" title="Lifeboat ethics">Lifeboat ethics</a></li>
<li><a href="Omission_bias" title="Omission bias">Omission bias</a></li>
<li><i><a href="R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens" title="R v Dudley and Stephens">R v Dudley and Stephens</a></i></li>
<li><a href="The_Case_of_the_Speluncean_Explorers#Similar_real_cases" title="The Case of the Speluncean Explorers">The Case of the Speluncean Explorers § Similar real cases</a></li>
<li><a href="Tunnel_problem" title="Tunnel problem">Tunnel problem</a></li>
<li><a href="Violinist_(thought_experiment)" class="mw-redirect" title="Violinist (thought experiment)">Violinist (thought experiment)</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtue_ethics" title="Virtue ethics">Virtue ethics</a></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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