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人生最大的道德陷阱

You’re like, Fuck that, I'm out. And you leave the event without purchasing the car.

你可能会说：“去你的吧，我才不干。”然后就走了，车也不买了。

You see, this is the ethical dilemma of the self-driving car.

你看，这就是无人驾驶汽车的道德困境。

Researchers have done polls on large groups of people on different ethical scenarios when it comes to self-driving cars. The results are interesting. In general, people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving vehicles should be programmed to minimize the death toll.

研究人员找了一大群人针对无人驾驶汽车的不同道德设想进行了民意测验，结果很有趣，人们普遍赞成无人驾驶汽车应该被设定将死亡人数最小化的程序设想。

Yet, they actually wished others to cruise in utilitarian autonomous vehicles, more than they wanted to buy utilitarian autonomous vehicles themselves.

然而，他们是真的希望别人能开这种功利型的自动汽车，自己却不想买。

People are in favor of cars that sacrifice the occupant to save other lives—as long as they don’t have to drive one themselves.

人们支持牺牲车主挽救别人的汽车，只要不是自己开就行。

So what’s the moral of the story?

那么这个故事说明了什么道理呢？

Ethics and morality are not straight-forward. The biggest ‘trap’ people fall into, is thinking that they are good people, simply because they want to do good.