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Asimov's Laws for Self-Driving Cars:

1. Don't hit anyone

2. Don't hit anything

3. If forced to violate rule(s) above, preserve the life of the person making the car payments

That was part of spec of the traction/break of a vehicle I worked on. Passagers life was prioritized as the premise behind the decision was : "Outside the vehicle is an unknown, we don't know if it's a human, an animal, an object ; we know that inside we have human life (at least the driver, at most the hundred of passengers), so we give priority to what we know)

Some interesting moral questions can be asked about this setup.

The most basic one, if indeed the outside is unknown to your product, are you a moral person developing it.

That sounds bad. Yes, you know that there’s a person in the car, but you also know that if the object in front of you is a person then they are multiple orders of magnitude more likely to be killed than the occupants. You have to weigh the uncertainty and the disparity of outcomes.

Sounds like a continuation of the automotive trend that pretends like the only person whose life matters is the occupant.

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