moral decisions

Many a class on ethics opens with the renowned Trolley Problem. This ethical dilemma has been used to introduce the classical approaches of utilitarian versus deontological ethics. Now, though the Trolley Problem has had some real-life applications, the advent of the autonomous vehicle has just made the Trolley Problem very real. Autonomous vehicles will be programmed to make life-and-death decisions, and the burning question is how should they be programmed?