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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Strange to assume that swerving will definitely kill one of them. What if you swerve off the road, or slam on the brakes? The reason the trolley problem works is that it's on rails and you're not operating it.

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

That's because it's a Tesla car, silly. It only allows for minimalization of victims down to a minimum of one. I've heard that newer models have a perdiction module, that will deploy a rear mounted gun and shot down any survivors in case of narrowly avoided car crash. The seat still does devour the driver if that happens though, for some legacy backwards compatibility reasons. As for the disembodied Voice that recites all your sins and threatens you to reveal them to the public should you NOT take the wheel and kill those people yourself, it's apparently in spanish as well now. Such an age of wonders.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The premise of memes can be critiqued, just like anything else.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Trolley problem is just a hypothetical situation with only 2 options.

It being on rails just ads flavour, it doesn't matter. You can't choose anything else.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's why this one doesn't work as a stand-in - you have a lot more agency over what happens, giving you more than 2 options.