双语美文Whatislife’sbiggesttrappeoplefallinto

1、Imagine you are 50 years in the future. You come to a car-sales event to purchase your very first self-driving autopilot car.想象一下你生活在50年以后的未来,你到一个汽车展销会上买你的第一辆全自动无人驾驶汽车.These cars will revolutionize road safety, having far better reaction speeds and split-second decision-making capabilities than a hu

2、man driver. 这些车将彻底改变道路平安,有远超司机的反响速度和瞬间 决定水平.However, the sales agent explained to you that in the extremely rare event of an unavoidable accident, it will sacrifice you if it can save more people and minimize life casualties as a result.然而销售人员向你解释说,在极少数不可预防发生事故的情 况下会牺牲掉你以挽救更多的人,以便将所造成的人身伤害 降到最低.Say

3、if, one day, while you are driving along, an unfortunate set of events causes the car to head towards a crowd of 10 people crossing the road. It cannot stop in time, so it will avoid killing 10 people by steering into a wall, killing you.假设有一天你开车时一系列不幸的事导致车冲向10个正在过马路的人,车来不及停下的话,为了预防撞上那10个人车将会撞到墙上牺牲掉

4、你一个.You' re like, Fuck that, I'm out. And you leave the event without purchasing the car.你可能会说：“去你的吧,我才不干.然后就走了,车也 不买了.You see, this is the ethical dilemma of the self-driving car.你看,这就是无人驾驶汽车的道德困境.Researchers have done polls on large groups of people on different ethical scenarios when it c

5、omes to self-driving cars. The results are interesting. In general, people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving vehicles should be programmed to minimize the death toll.研究人员找了一大群人针对无人驾驶汽车的不同道德设想 进行了民意测验,结果很有趣,人们普遍赞成无人驾驶汽车 应该被设定将死亡人数最小化的程序设想.Yet, they actually wished others tocruise inutil

6、itarian autonomous vehicles, more than they wanted to buy utilitarian autonomous vehicles themselves.然而,他们是真的希望别人能开这种功利型的自动汽车,自 己却不想买.People are in favor of cars that sacrifice the occupant to save other lives as long as they don' t have to drive one themselves.人们支持牺牲车主挽救别人的汽车,只要不是自己开就行.So what

7、' s the moral of the story?那么这个故事说明了什么道理呢Ethics and morality are not straight-forward. The biggest 'trap ' people fall into, is thinking that they are good people, simply because they want to do good.伦理道德并非易事.人们陷入的最大“骗局就是仅仅由于 他们“想做好事就认为自己是“好人.But having good intentions does not mean you are actually doing good. You lose sight of the big picture, and get tunnel-vision, as if looking out fro