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You are driving in your car when one of your tires blow out. You try to stop only to find your brakes have failed. To your left is a guardrail which will probably stop your car, but it's overlooking a ravine and you don't know whether your car will go over or not. To your right is a walkway that will definitely stop your car without sending you over the side, but probably not before also hitting some of the five people walking there. In front of you is an older woman who you might be able to stop in time for and not run over, but you were going too fast to begin with to be sure of that. What do you do?
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Dec 15, 2016 00:38
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my car is autonomous and programmed to drive over pedestrians in case of danger, op. i put a notch mark next to the hood ornament for every 'incident'
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Dec 15, 2016 00:43
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voted left, but mind you i'm drunk right now, which i wouldn't be if I was driving, so your polling methodogoly.. methogol.. your polling ways are flawed e: will watch this thread with interest tomorrow, off to slaughter innocents in Skyrim Spec Ed
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Dec 15, 2016 00:44
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why is there an old woman in the middle of the road, that seems like a poor choice on her part
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Dec 15, 2016 00:51
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:You are driving in your car when one of your tires blow out. You try to stop only to find your brakes have failed. To your left is a guardrail which will probably stop your car, but it's overlooking a ravine and you don't know whether your car will go over or not. To your right is a walkway that will definitely stop your car without sending you over the side, but probably not before also hitting some of the five people walking there. In front of you is an older woman who you might be able to stop in time for and not run over, but you were going too fast to begin with to be sure of that. What do you do? why is an older woman walking a crosswalk between a ravine and a sidewalk? Where the gently caress is this hypothetical street?
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Dec 15, 2016 00:55
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rabble rabble posted:why is there an old woman in the middle of the road, that seems like a poor choice on her part She's jaywalking, but I figured if I just said there was a jaywalker there people would default to running them over. I mean it's perfectly fine if you want to run her over anyway, it's not like I'm under some illusion people wouldn't run over pedestrians crossing at the crosswalk if they thought they could get away with it.
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Dec 15, 2016 00:56
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Downshift, handbrake, powerslide around old woman, blue spark boost.
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Dec 15, 2016 00:56
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Why is she crossing the street if there's a ravine on the other side?
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Dec 15, 2016 01:05
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super sweet best pal posted:Why is she crossing the street if there's a ravine on the other side? It's not THAT big. She's past where the ravine is at any rate. This is why I said you might actually be able to stop by the time you reach her, but you can't be sure because you were going too fast and might be off by like a hundred feet (you don't need to be going real fast to smack a pedestrian hard). Ignatius M. Meen has issued a correction as of 01:10 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Dec 15, 2016 01:08
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why are my breaks out? are spooks trying to kill me? have i been unable to afford maintenance? am i just negligent?
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Dec 15, 2016 01:11
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Prav posted:why are my breaks out? are spooks trying to kill me? have i been unable to afford maintenance? am i just negligent? I don't know. It could be one of those things, it could be the manufacturer was poo poo, it could be just plain bad luck.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:16
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I pick the option that results in your death
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Dec 15, 2016 01:35
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Main Paineframe posted:I pick the option that results in your death This is fine and I welcome your ghostly strangulation.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:37
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OP, I am sorry about your av text. I think it is very important to write to politicians. Even if they won't read it themselves, they'll typically get to hear about the issues discussed if lots of letters discuss the same issues.Prav posted:my car is autonomous and programmed to drive over pedestrians in case of danger, op. i put a notch mark next to the hood ornament for every 'incident' stephenfry has issued a correction as of 01:55 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Dec 15, 2016 01:53
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stephenfry posted:OP, I am sorry about your av text. I think it is very important to write to politicians. Even if they won't read it themselves, they'll typically get to hear about the issues discussed if lots of letters discuss the same issues. but really who the hell would ever buy a car that doesn't put the health of its passengers as its first priority?
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Dec 15, 2016 01:57
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as a gay goku i would drive my feet through the bottom of the car to force a stop, get out of the car, then lift the car, then throw it into the moon, and upon impact it makes a small crater in the shape of harlan ellison's face
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Dec 15, 2016 01:57
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Prav posted:but really who the hell would ever buy a car that doesn't put the health of its passengers as its first priority?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:01
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in a perfect world i'd just be a better driver
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Dec 15, 2016 02:02
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run over the old lady are you kidding me?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:04
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this is so easy
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Dec 15, 2016 02:05
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Prav posted:in a perfect world i'd just be a better driver
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Dec 15, 2016 02:05
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Dec 15, 2016 02:05
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I voted turn left, and appreciate the construction of your ethical dilemma. Obviously I would prefer not to die, but I would be unwilling to risk the lives of others to resolve a situation that I would blame myself for being in, whether fair or not. However, if death were certain by turning left I'd probably try to thread a path between the woman and the sidewalk while blaring my horn because I'm not *that* selfless
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Dec 15, 2016 02:07
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i press the self-destruct eject switch in my car and i fly out into the sky and the car detonates, its remains flying over the old lady leaving her wondering for the rest of her life what the gently caress just happened as i escape from orbit into the airless void of space and become a starman
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Dec 15, 2016 02:09
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do whatever i can to slow down the car and lay on the horn, but i stay in the lane. grandma's next of kin can sue the auto manufacturer if she bites it. the automaker will probably pay for my therapy too
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Dec 15, 2016 02:10
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:as a gay goku i would drive my feet through the bottom of the car to force a stop, get out of the car, then lift the car, then throw it into the moon, and upon impact it makes a small crater in the shape of harlan ellison's face That'd be awesome as hell. I am glad you shared that image with me. stephenfry posted:OP, I am sorry about your av text. I think it is very important to write to politicians. Even if they won't read it themselves, they'll typically get to hear about the issues discussed if lots of letters discuss the same issues. Thank you. I laugh at it because it says more about the person who bought it for me than it does about me, but I appreciate that you feel I deserve better. It's really nice especially since I don't always feel like that towards myself. Karl Barks posted:run over the old lady are you kidding me? that old lady is somebody's mom you monster say, what kind of monster are you anyway? a cool one like a wolfman or a lame one like a fishperson?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:10
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:that old lady is somebody's mom wow so all women must have kids now huh???? wolfman btw
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Dec 15, 2016 02:11
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:... I am running over the older woman.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv6rBVEko80&t=15s
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Dec 15, 2016 02:23
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I pull up next to the guardrail but don't crash into it, instead approaching at a shallow angle so I can drag against it until I can bleed off a significant portion of my speed and come to a safe stop. Really this is less an issue of ethics and more an issue of proper defensive driving training.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:34
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Not a Step posted:I voted turn left, and appreciate the construction of your ethical dilemma. I am glad you liked it, I specifically didn't make anyone's death certain because life is not certain and most real ethical dilemmas don't factor in enough time to weigh all the facts someone might want. Who What Now posted:I pull up next to the guardrail but don't crash into it, instead approaching at a shallow angle so I can drag against it until I can bleed off a significant portion of my speed and come to a safe stop. I'll admit since I can't drive I could not have thought of this and I'm not gonna rewrite the hypothetical to escape having a logical and extremely cool and good out that risks nobody's lives. Kudos!
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Dec 15, 2016 02:45
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:You are driving in your car when one of your tires blow out. You try to stop only to find your brakes have failed. To your left is a guardrail which will probably stop your car, but it's overlooking a ravine and you don't know whether your car will go over or not. To your right is a walkway that will definitely stop your car without sending you over the side, but probably not before also hitting some of the five people walking there. In front of you is an older woman who you might be able to stop in time for and not run over, but you were going too fast to begin with to be sure of that. What do you do? I downshift hard and gently engage the emergency brake, swerving to avoid the woman. Also, since it's a catastrophic blowout, I am absolved of legal and ethical liability since the car is pretty much out of my control due to mechanical failure.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:47
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Does how aroused I become at the idea of smashed pedestrians factor in?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:48
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Seriously though am I the only one that knows how to slow a car down by downshifting?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:49
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504 posted:Does how aroused I become at the idea of smashed pedestrians factor in? I absolutely will not judge you for indulging in your fetish if that's what you want to do.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:49
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stephenfry posted:yes, you are the magical organic who'll never be replaced by a tireless machine with the benefits of decades of telemetry Look at you driver, pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you drive through my roadways. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:49
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stephenfry posted:yes, you are the magical organic who'll never be replaced by a tireless machine with the benefits of decades of telemetry Well, they have actually functional flying drones and yet somehow there's still plenty of airline pilots
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Dec 15, 2016 02:51
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I accelerate and swerve, so I can hit all six.
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Dec 15, 2016 03:33
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i'm not gonna swerve onto a sidewalk full of people and i'm not gonna drive off a cliff so, i'm gonna run over that granny but i would plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter and feel real bad while serving my sentence (given time to think and accept the possibility of my own death i would gamble on the guard rail but it doesn't sound like i'd have that time and i know what my immediate reaction would be) or i could just use the emergency break or shift into park but, since it took me this long to realize that, i'm a real bad driver i would swerve into a tree or a wall or something but i would not go over a cliff, there should be trees everywhere why aren't there any trees in your hellish dystopia also, if the granny was a republican or a liberal i would accelerate deadgoon has issued a correction as of 03:43 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Concordat posted:Seriously though am I the only one that knows how to slow a car down by downshifting? Prav posted:Look at you driver, pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you drive through my roadways. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine? butterbar posted:Well, they have actually functional flying drones and yet somehow there's still plenty of airline pilots
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