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The Trolley Problem

An obstreperous thought experiment that was never designed to be solved is no way of talking about driverless cars

Nov 21, 2024
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Hello from deepest Patagonia where JC is on a fact-finding mission to see some magnificent slow-motion systems in their natural state. This is the Perito Moreno glacier. It advances 2.2 metres per day, meaning the seventy-metre-high columns of the front wall, which you can watch calving into Lago Argentino, started life as heavy snowfall on Ciero Petrob…

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