After all, when you’re trying to build things like, say, self-driving cars, scenarios like the Trolley Problem can very quickly move beyond thought experiments and quickly into the realm of reality.

The trolley problem, specifically the particular crude illustration constantly being remixed, has been floating around the web for a while (crowdsourced encyclopedia Know Your Meme traces it to ...

There is an old thought experiment called the Trolley Problem that’s become central to the development of autonomous cars. In the context of self-driving cars, it sets up a scenario where an ...

But the trolley problem can be a double-edged sword, Lin says. On the one hand, it’s a great entry point and teaching tool for engineers with no background in ethics.

Google recently announced that their self-driving car has driven more than a million miles. According to Morgan Stanley, self-driving cars will be commonplace in society by circa 2025. This got me ...

The San Francisco trolley in 2019. Paul Rovere/Getty Images. Given the impact of our lives on Earth's ecology, including the way we are exacerbating the climate crisis every day, it is clear that ...