A Scientist and driverless car creator has employed a philosopher to determine how to teach the car to make ethical judgements.

According to The Times the Stanford University scientist, who has already created the first driverless car which can beat a human driver on a racetrack, has stressed the need for driverless cars to be flexible enough in their engineering to be able to make ethical judgements that aren’t necessarily written into their programming.

The topic of driverless cars has been hotly debated ever since Google first revealed it was building a prototype, and now rumours are rife that Read full story ›

Source: The Drum