The Ethics of Saving Lives With Autonomous Cars Are Far Murkier Than You Think

Food for thought:

If a weakly-godlike AI system slightly more adept at seeing the moral implications of current actions on future events than you are suddenly instructed you to kill the person next to you by any means necessary, would you obey it?

Most of the counterpoints raised have their basis in pure conjecture or assumptions. If everyone held themselves accountable for n-th degrees of freedom outcomes, nobody could in good conscience draw a breath. It would, after all, increase the entropy of the universe.