The Trolley Problem Version of Autonomous Vehicles

ntroduction:The Trolley problem is a very well-known ethics dilemma about actively killing one or sometimes even more persons in order tosave a number of persons. The problem can occur in autonomous vehicles when the vehicle realizes that there is no way to prevent acollision, the computer of the vehicle should analyze which collision is considered to be the least harmful collision. Method and Result:In this paper, we suggest a method to evaluate the likely harmfulness of each sort of collision using Spatial Data Structures andBounding Volumes and accordingly to decide which course of actions would be the less harmful and therefore should be chosen bythe autonomous vehicle. Conclusion:The aim of this paper is to emphasize that the “Trolley Problem” occurs when the human driver is replaced by a robot and if a moralanswer is given by an authoritative and legitimate board of experts, it can be coded in autonomous vehicle software