Table of Contents

Introduction vii
1 A Technological Thriller 1
2 Dubai, May 2015 5
3 Merlin's Laugh 9
4 The Right Questions 13
5 The First Experiment 19
6 Initial Setbacks 23
7 "Programmed to Kill" 27
8 The Social Dilemma 31
9 The Meta-Trolley 35
10 The Birth of Moral Machine 39
11 A Race Against the Clock 45
12 Zero Hour 51
13 Viral 55
14 Mercedes-Benz vs. Barack Obama 63
15 The Code of Berlin 69
16 90 Percent of Accidents 79
17 Harry Potter and the Self-Driving Car 87
18 The Uber Accident 93
19 Who's Afraid of Driverless Cars? 99
20 Forty Million Responses 105
21 An Ethics Top-Three 113
22 Cultural Variations of Morality 119
23 "We Must Show Some Blood" 127
24 We Have to Step Up 135
25 What Now? 141
Notes 149

About the Author

Jean-Fran ois Bonnefon is Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and President of a European Commission expert group that advises on the ethics of driverless mobility.

Reviews

“An enlightening analysis of the moral and ethical problems surrounding autonomous cars . . . Bonnefon considers such complicated questions with tact and curiosity, and his own research is fascinating, as with a site that he built called The Moral Machine that provides interactive accident scenarios. This is a thoughtful and provocative look at a timely concern.” – Publishers Weekly