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title: Switching the Track Experiment – Would You Switch the Track? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/switching-the-track-experiment-would-you-switch-the-track/
date: 2017-12-06
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# Switching the Track Experiment – Would You Switch the Track?

Would you reroute a train to run over one person to prevent it from running over five others? In the classic “Trolley Problem” survey, most people say they would. But I wanted to test what people would actually do in a real-life situation. In the world’s first realistic simulation of this controversial moral dilemma, unsuspecting subjects will be forced to make what they believe is a life-or-death decision.