Anshul Malhan

“You don’t know what you don’t know” Honestly, no one knows.

Anthony and De Freitas interviewed employees at May Mobility, nuTonomy, Perceptive Automata, and a global automotive company that preferred to remain anonymous, all of which drive AVs on real roads every day, and none of them “have teams or budgets devoted to solving trolley-like dilemmas.” Engineers at these companies are focused on developing the AVs so that they make decisions with the…

In the real world, you almost never get these types of “force-choice dilemmas,” explains Anthony. “The trolley dilemma can be useful when you’re picking apart people’s intuitions, where you can isolate one or two factors, but it’s a mistake to think that you can really apply that to the real world in all its complexity.”