{"product_id":"the-car-that-knew-too-much-isbn-9780262045797","title":"The Car That Knew Too Much","description":"\u003cb\u003eGet the inside story of the groundbreaking experiment that captured what people think about the life-and-death dilemmas posed by driverless cars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman drivers don't find themselves facing such moral dilemmas as \"should I sacrifice myself by driving off a cliff if that could save the life of a little girl on the road?\" Human brains aren't fast enough to make that kind of calculation; the car is over the cliff in a nanosecond. A self-driving car, on the other hand, can compute fast enough to make such a decision—to do whatever humans have programmed it to do. But what should that be? This book investigates how people want driverless cars to decide matters of life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Car That Knew Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e, psychologist Jean-François Bonnefon reports on a groundbreaking experiment that captured what people think cars should do in situations where not everyone can be saved. Sacrifice the passengers for pedestrians? Save children rather than adults? Kill one person so many can live? Bonnefon and his collaborators Iyad Rahwan and Azim Shariff designed the largest experiment in moral psychology ever: the Moral Machine, an interactive website that has allowed people—eventually, millions of them, from 233 countries and territories—to make choices within detailed accident scenarios. Bonnefon discusses the responses (reporting, among other things, that babies, children, and pregnant women were most likely to be saved), the media frenzy over news of the experiment, and scholarly responses to it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoosters for driverless cars argue that they will be in fewer accidents than human-driven cars. It's up to humans to decide how many fatal accidents we will allow these cars to have.Introduction vii\u003cbr\u003e1 A Technological Thriller 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Dubai, May 2015 5\u003cbr\u003e3 Merlin's Laugh 9\u003cbr\u003e4 The Right Questions 13\u003cbr\u003e5 The First Experiment 19\u003cbr\u003e6 Initial Setbacks 23\u003cbr\u003e7 \"Programmed to Kill\" 27\u003cbr\u003e8 The Social Dilemma 31\u003cbr\u003e9 The Meta-Trolley 35\u003cbr\u003e10 The Birth of Moral Machine 39\u003cbr\u003e11 A Race Against the Clock 45\u003cbr\u003e12 Zero Hour 51\u003cbr\u003e13 Viral 55\u003cbr\u003e14 Mercedes-Benz vs. Barack Obama 63\u003cbr\u003e15 The Code of Berlin 69\u003cbr\u003e16 90 Percent of Accidents 79\u003cbr\u003e17 \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter \u003c\/i\u003eand the Self-Driving Car 87\u003cbr\u003e18 The Uber Accident 93\u003cbr\u003e19 Who's Afraid of Driverless Cars? 99\u003cbr\u003e20 Forty Million Responses 105\u003cbr\u003e21 An Ethics Top-Three 113\u003cbr\u003e22 Cultural Variations of Morality 119\u003cbr\u003e23 \"We Must Show Some Blood\" 127\u003cbr\u003e24 We Have to Step Up 135\u003cbr\u003e25 What Now? 141\u003cbr\u003eNotes 149“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.” \u003cb\u003e– Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e“Psychologist Jean-François Bonnefon provides a vivid description of key discoveries regarding ethical aspects of machines endowed with artificial intelligence. This wonderful account of the scientific process and of the science itself asks and answers fundamental questions regarding the world we increasingly inhabit—a world that is a hybrid system of humans and machines. Machines are already interacting with us in potentially beneficial and harmful ways, and they will soon change how we treat each other as well. \u003ci\u003eThe Car That Knew Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e is a primer for the future.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNicholas A. Christakis, author of \u003ci\u003eBlueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“On the face of it, this book is about the ethics of autonomous vehicles, a miraculous new technology that could change life as we know it. But it actually offers a probing analysis of difficult moral dilemmas brought on by technological advancement generally, along with moral questions that we face merely because we are human. As a bonus, the narrative is enlivened by an honest and insightful case study in the sociology of interdisciplinary science.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSteve Sloman, Professor of Cognitive Science, Brown University\u003c\/b\u003eJean-François 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.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301588291813,"sku":"NP9780262045797","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045797.jpg?v=1767738598","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-car-that-knew-too-much-isbn-9780262045797","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}