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Questions #1 and "2 Cro be answered together: On Judith Jarvis Thompson Scenario: Imagine that Judith Jarvis Thompson gets a job programming automated self-driving cars. To say that the cars are "networ ked" is to say that these cars can co communicate d coordinate with an car operates without human control and is controlled by a sophisticated computer artificial how it can act ethically in certain situat other cars. To say that they are automated or self-driving is to say that the program or I intelligence. Judith Jarvis Thompson's job is to give principles to the car to determine tions. Consider the following two examples, and expl how and why Thompson would program the cars. Case 1: The car is driving the speed limit and the brakes fail. If the car continues on its current path it will run into a crosswalk with many people crossing in it and several people will die. The car's weak horn cannot be heard over a nearby jackhammer that is being operated by a worker. If the car turns left, it will drive into oncoming traffic, which will also kill several people because there is no way for all the cars to get out of the way. The third and final option is to turn right and run over and kill the man using the jackhammer. These are the only options. The driver of the car will survive all options Question #1: How would Judith Jarvis Thompson program, the car to act and what would be her reasons? Case 2: The car is driving at 45 miles per hour along a street and a woman with a baby carriage steps out in front of the car. No matter how strongly the car applies its breaks, it will not stop in time to save the lives of these two people. Turning the wheel left or right will also not save t woman's and her baby's lives: at this speed and distance, the car will lose control and slide into the pair. The only way to save their lives is for the computer driving the first car to communica he te with another nearby car waiting to turn onto the street and have that second car accelerate rapidly save the life of the woman and child. The driver of the first car survives all options. Question #2: In this second case, what would Judith Jarvis Thompson tell the first car to runaway car? Explain the reasons for her choice. into the path of the first car. If it does so, it will kill the occupant of the second car, but it will do: kill the woman and child or communicate with the second car and "push" it into the way of the

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1. Judith would be programming the car to move right, where the car would,d be running over and killing the man who is using the jackhammer. This would be fair according to the utilitarian ethics, where the good for maximum would be considered. In this case, the good for maximum people is where maximum number of people would be saved and “only” one person would be killed. Hence, the decision to turn right.

2. In this case, Judith should be communicating with the second car such that it would come in line with the first car. This is because, in this case, there would be saving of two lives. Also, the child has a greater life prospect and greater social value. Hence, the child and mother should be saved.

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