2026-08-30 14:53 UTC
@mattdm@hachyderm.io Yeah, if you are solving the trolley problem in real life, someone has already made several fundamental mistakes.
As an example: if a car is barreling towards a group of children and the driver can hit the children and save the occupants of the vehicle or can swerve off a cliff, killing the occupants to save the children, the original mistake was traveling at an unsafe velocity in a place where this scenario could occur.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-08-30 15:19
@aharper@mstdn.social @mattdm@hachyderm.io Even further back, the mistake was not installing bollards or equivalent.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-08-30 20:34
@aharper@mstdn.social @mattdm@hachyderm.io Or really, building a road next to a cliff in the first place. Or making the local infrastructure so insufficient and defective a car was both necessary and possible to use there.