[ WP ] Your future self driving car has to choose between saving you or saving some strangers ( from r/futurology )

The three law of Robotics. Praised so highly after the science fiction mogul's fame spread, these three laws kept any android from harming a human. While these laws were kept in regard as the first `` self thinking'' Robots were constructed, it never quite turned out as we planned. 
 
 Driving down a near empty interstate from Chicago, a car shielded the man inside. Like a baby in the womb, he lay undisturbed by any outside distractions. Setting the windows to tint and filter any unwanted sunlight out, the man inside reclined. Inside you could hardly tell there was any movement at all, it was like having a moving home, one that could take you anywhere you desired. 
 
 Who would want to drive for themselves anymore? There were of course the motorheads that were allowed to cruise on empty dirt roads and lots, but these new cars were much safer than any human could hope to be. They were the luxury that even the most common man could afford. Though as with anything of the sort, mistakes simply happened. The cars did what they could, and of course, they tried their damnedest to keep all bystanders safe, but sometimes a situation left the brain inside the robot car to make the decision that any man could not, it was in that moment, a god, taking a life away, and sparing the innocent. 
 
 As the man in the car slept, speeding down a black road at hundreds of miles per hour, two old men were huddled around a broken down car that sat in the middle of the road. The car steadily approached the island in the asphalt sea, racking it's brains, calculating thousands of different solutions that all ended the same, with someone dead. Going to the path of least destruction, it decided that, as the man inside was sleeping, he would suffer no pain as his life was cut short. After all, two was better than one. 
 
 The car shot off the railing and slammed into a tree, and the man was dead in an instant. The two men could n't believe what they had seen, for a second they could've sworn the car had been after them. They shrugged it off and after a few minutes more of tinkering, they hauled a body into the trunk and continued down the interstate. 
 
 
 
 ^^^Disclaimer: ^^^I've ^^^taken ^^^a ^^^month ^^^or ^^^so ^^^long ^^^writing ^^^hiatus ^^^and ^^^this ^^^is ^^^the ^^^first ^^^thing ^^^I've ^^^written ^^^since. ^^^Apologies ^^^for ^^^the ^^^clunky ^^^writing. ^^^ < 3 
 

