You can sit there and let five innocent people die, or you can actively cause the death of one innocent person. What do you do?

Additional Resources

The Guardian on the Trolley Problem: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/dec/12/the-trolley-problem-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-many-others

Philippa Foot: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/

Consequentialism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/#ClaUti

Deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

Human cause more self-driving accidents than humans (proportionately): https://fortune.com/2018/08/29/self-driving-car-accidents/

Theme music is "Levitation" by Mabeha. Listen to the track here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0YS8xR9oPMtUvQj3C4wKHZ?si=jz4eZ9fWTE6F-Wrdl7rb9A