It seems every year I must write about the highly distracting "trolley problem" question for robocars, where people wonder how software will "decide who to kill" when a car faces an unavoidable ...

You may be familiar with the famous “trolley problem” from ethics discussions. Suppose the brakes on a trolley car have failed and it’s now racing toward five people who are tied to the track up ahead ...

Think quickly: You are a bystander witnessing a runaway trolley that is careening toward five workers. You have just two choices: One, pull a switch diverting the trolley onto another track, where one ...