Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

Your self driving car is driving at incredible speed along a cliff. A mother hurls her baby into the path of the car. What should the car do?

Oh wait, that's stupid.

The incredible sophistication that is meant to be put to the question of which humans to kill can simply be put to the question of what speed is safe for all the humans present in the sensor envelope and then you probably end up where reasonable people call any remaining incidents impossible situations (like a baby being hurled in front of the car from some unseen location).

I don't feel great about someone being able to force a self-driving car to kill the owner by jaywalking.

Then again, hopefully cars aren't going fast enough to kill the owner in places where people often jaywalk.