1. Should engineers program driverless cars to protect pedestrians or the driver? Who gets to decide? In one study, participants said that, if a car had to choose between ten pedestrians and one driver, it should swerve into a wall, killing the driver and saving the ten people. 
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3. But when asked what car they would actually buy, participants chose the one that would protect them—the driver. What would Kant and Mill say about this choice? What would result under the Front Page test? If drivers chose to protect themselves, would they be to blame, legally or ethically, for the deaths of the pedestrians?

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