T-Rex: The nice thing about car accidents - IF THERE IS A NICE THING ABOUT THEM - is that we can say "there was nothing anyone could've done" and believe it. It's hard to blame a driver for a split-second decision made in a crisis.
T-Rex: Well hah hah hah GUESS WHAT??
T-Rex: With self-driving cars, that platitude is OVER!
T-Rex: How the coming CompuCarz respond won't be unknown or unknowable: it's programmed into them. BY US. And that means we have to decide, IN ADVANCE, how much a car should value our fragile fleshy lives AND the fragile fleshy lives of others.
Dromiceiomimus: Can't we just three-laws this bad boy?
T-Rex: No dice, sadly!
Utahraptor: Because sometimes doing harm is unavoidable!
T-Rex: Yep! Even WITH robo-drivers.
T-Rex: Should a car crash itself - killing you - to save another? What about 10 others? 100? A car hardwired to always value the life of its passengers above EVERYTHING ELSE sounds SOCIOPATHIC, but I gotta believe that car would sell. Gotta protect your family, right?
Utahraptor: Eugh.
T-Rex: Luckily, there's an easy fix! Just make cars save the most people, but allow the rich to pay extra so THEIR cars will plow through as many orphans as it takes to protect them!
Off panel: That - actually makes things worse??
T-Rex: UTAHRAPTOR
T-Rex: THIS WAS A TEST AND YOU PASSED
