While studying traditional news journalism in college, Jake realized he was smitten by all things automotive and wound up with an internship at Car and Driver. That led to a career writing news, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Emily Schwartz. Throughout my college career, I have toggled back and forth between ...

When it comes to autonomous cars, get used to hearing about ‘the trolley problem.’ A thought experiment in ethics, the basis of the problem is as follows: A runaway train is about to mow down five ...

The trolley problem is a classic thought experiment in ethics, which asks you to imagine a trolley headed toward a track that five people are bound to. If you pull a lever, you can redirect the ...

Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...

OK, in the scheme of things, the removal of the landmark trolley pier in the Conewago Creek near Manchester will not cause the tides to stop rolling in or, more to the metaphorical point, stop the ...

There was a mention of the classic trolley problem in your look at a new book on morality. This left me wondering whether – rather than choose to push an innocent bystander into the path of the ...

Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to make a difficult decision when there is really no good choice. The ...