Every time we get behind the wheel of a car, we put our lives and the lives of others at risk. Self-driving cars are designed to reduce those risks by letting technology control our vehicles. Accident rates for self-driving cars have been much lower than the rates for human-driven cars. Google's self-driving car has had only 13 collisions after traveling 1.8 million miles. As humans, we can make moral choices in avoiding accidents. To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child even if others might be injured. But what moral choices can self-driving cars make? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, studied this issue. They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices self-driving cars should make.
Title: MIT Seeks 'Moral' to the Story of Self-Driving Cars
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1453/self_driving_cars_moral.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='MIT Seeks 'Moral' to the Story of Self-Driving Cars' data-article-id='1957'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11125'>Every time we get behind the wheel of a car, we put our lives and the lives of others at risk.</span> <span data-start-time='11125' data-end-time='22396'>Self-driving cars are designed to reduce those risks by letting technology control our vehicles.</span> <span data-start-time='22396' data-end-time='32875'>Accident rates for self-driving cars have been much lower than the rates for human-driven cars.</span> <span data-start-time='32875' data-end-time='45563'>Google's self-driving car has had only 13 collisions after traveling 1.8 million miles.</span> <span data-start-time='45563' data-end-time='52792'>As humans, we can make moral choices in avoiding accidents.</span> <span data-start-time='52792' data-end-time='67396'>To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child even if others might be injured.</span> <span data-start-time='67396' data-end-time='73583'>But what moral choices can self-driving cars make?</span> <span data-start-time='73583' data-end-time='82771'>Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, studied this issue.</span> <span data-start-time='82771' data-end-time='94250'>They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices self-driving cars should make.</span> 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