With Driverless Cars, a Safety Dilemma Arises: Would you buy a car that might decide to kill you?

[whatthehey]

12. No - it works with input X=output Y not with every possible scenario linked to a specific response

You're also falling for the false dilemma. There is neither the need nor the basis on which to triage life a against life b. The only relevant programming will be to minimize impact if it cannot be avoided. A car that decides to fling itself off an Alpine pass rather than hit a pair of pedestrians (assuming it has only one occupant) lacks the sensors to know whether it will crash into a cottage over the cliff with three innocent bystanders, thereby increasing body count. If it decides to hit a brick wall and kill the driver (is that 150lb in the back seat luggage or another passenger who needs saving by the way?) it cannot know that the brick wall will collapse a building with ten people inside. See, contrived scenarios can work both ways and have too many unknowable parameters to program this kind of utilitarian woolgathering when simply avoid/minimize impact does the trick just like humans do, but better.