In 2021, Germany passed the first law worldwide that regulates dilemma situations with autonomous cars. Against this background, this article investigates the permissibility of trade-offs between human lives in the context of self-driving cars. It does so by drawing on the debate about the traditional trolley problem. In contrast to most authors in the relevant literature, it argues that the debate about the trolley problem is both directly and indirectly relevant for the ethics of crashes with self-driving cars. Drawing on its direct normative relevance, the article shows that trade-offs are permissible in situations with self-driving cars that are similar to paradigmatic trolley cases. In scenarios that are unlike paradigmatic trolley cases, the debate about the trolley problem can have indirect normative relevance because it provides reasons against the use of moral theories and principles that cannot account for the trolley problem.

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自动驾驶汽车伦理中的电车问题

2021 年，德国通过了全球第一部规范自动驾驶汽车困境的法律。在此背景下，本文研究了在自动驾驶汽车的背景下人类生命之间权衡取舍的可允许性。它通过借鉴关于传统电车问题的辩论来做到这一点。与相关文献中的大多数作者不同，它认为关于电车问题的争论与自动驾驶汽车碰撞的伦理学直接和间接相关。根据其直接的规范相关性，本文表明，在类似于典型拉杆箱的自动驾驶汽车的情况下，权衡取舍是允许的。在不同于典型拉杆箱的场景中，