The cars just need a high speed connection to the credit bureaus, then they can optimize for minimizing the sum of the FICO scores of those killed.<p>More seriously, I don&#x27;t understand why this is always brought up in the context of autonomous cars. How often do crashes happen where killing people is inevitable but you get to choose who dies? How often <i>will</i> such crashes happen when autonomous vehicles are common? How far from the theoretical optimum will it be to just say &quot;in an emergency, brake to a stop and steer to avoid obstacles&quot;?<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure this is an edge case on the edge cases. If autonomous vehicles deliver on even 10% of their promise, safety will go <i>way</i> up. It doesn&#x27;t have to be perfect.