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The Reasonable Robot Standard: How The Federal Government Needs To Regulate Ethical Decision Programming In Highly Autonomous Vehicles, Laura Emmons Jan 2021

The Reasonable Robot Standard: How The Federal Government Needs To Regulate Ethical Decision Programming In Highly Autonomous Vehicles, Laura Emmons

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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A steam train is chugging along down a country track. You are a passenger, watching red and orange clustered hills pass by; fall is already here. You start to daydream about the last time you took this trip, how the summer had just begun and how quickly it went. Suddenly, reality hits. You awake from your daydream when you glance up and see five people strapped to the train tracks ahead of you. You know there is not enough time for the train to brake. Luckily, you happen to be sitting right next to the emergency switch, which would …