Introduction vii
1 A Technological Thriller 1
2 Dubai, May 2015 5
3 Merlin’s Laugh 9
4 The Right Questions 13
5 The First Experiment 19
6 Initial Setbacks 23
7 “Programmed to Kill” 27
8 The Social Dilemma 31
9 The Meta-Trolley 35
10 The Birth of Moral Machine 39
11 A Race Against the Clock 45
12 Zero Hour 51
13 Viral 55
14 Mercedes-Benz vs. Barack Obama 63
15 The Code of Berlin 69
16 90 Percent of Accidents 79
17 Harry Potter and the Self-Driving Car 87
18 The Uber Accident 93
19 Who’s Afraid of Driverless Cars? 99
20 Forty Million Responses 105
21 An Ethics Top-Three 113
22 Cultural Variations of Morality 119
23 “We Must Show Some Blood” 127
24 We Have to Step Up 135
25 What Now? 141
Notes 149