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The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars - Patrick Lin

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Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. How should the car be programmed if it encounters an unavoidable accident? Patrick Lin navigates the murky ethics of self-driving cars.

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When an ethics judgement is needed, who should get to decide how robot cars are programmed: engineers/programmers, manufacturers/company executives, government, owner/occupants of the vehicles, the general public, or someone else?

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Patrick Lin
  • Director Yukai Du
  • Script Editor Amy Adkins
  • Animator Kevin O'Shea, Jiaqi Wang
  • Composer Cem Misirlioglu
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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