"A Kind of Bias That I Call Technochauvinism"

"With driving, the stakes are much higher. In a self-driving car, death is an unavoidable feature, not a bug. By this point, many people know about the trolley problem as an example of an ethical decision that has to be programmed into a self-driving car. It’s too soon to tell whether the Uber crash was a situation where the car was programmed to save the occupants and kill the bystander, or if it was a software malfunction, or if something totally unexpected happened. If the car was programmed to save the car’s occupants at the expense of pedestrians, the autonomous-car industry is facing its first public moment of moral reckoning."

Meredith Broussard at The Atlantic discusses self-driving cars in the wake of the first pedestrian fatality because of them.