The East and West have very different ideas on who to save in a self-driving car accident

As countries race to put self-driving cars on road, these vehicles, like human drivers, will inevitably one day be in sole charge of split-second decisions that will result in life or death. Sometimes any decision will unavoidably cause harm to one set of people or another—the famous trolley problem. In that case, what human preferences should shape the algorithms that will decide what the car will do?

https://qz.com/1447109/how-east-and-west-differ-on-whom-a-self-driving-car-should-save/