Today, advanced technology is seen all around us and will be increasing everyday in the future. One of the more popular advancements we have seen in the world are autonomous cars that will drive by themselves without you having to. These cars are programmed to understand its surrounding environment and navigates through laser lights, GPS, radar sensors, and different control systems and sensory information. Advantages of these cars are seen as clean energy for the environment as these cars would be electric, reduced costs, increased safety, and fewer car accidents.However, a more philosophical question has risen out of this: weather your self driverless car, in the case of life or death, should protect you if it means killing a pedestrian or protect the pedestrian by crashing and potentially killing you. Now this creates an uncertainty on the way these cars are programmed and even to be bought in the future. An article from The Guardian, science editor Ian Sample, explains a very interesting survey on which car would you want to drive in: the one that saves you or the one that kills you to save someone else. Sample states, “In one survey, 76% of people agreed that a driverless car should sacrifice its passenger rather than plough into and kill 10 pedestrians. They agreed, too, that it was moral for AVs to be programmed in this way: it minimised deaths the cars caused. And the view held even when people were asked to imagine themselves or a family member travelling in the car.” Now morally this makes sense, that you want to save as many people as you can. But later in the article, when these people are asked if they want to buy the car that is programmed to kill the driver if it comes to that decision, statistics say they won’t buy it. Instead they would rather not have that car at all. Now fully autonomous cars aren’t fully out there yet, but the future holds many opportunities for new technology to make a difference. But, this is the world’s first time seeing this type of stuff, so it’ll be interesting what types of laws and regulations new technology like autonomous cars must have programmed in them. Soon we’ll be finding out.