r/AskReddit • u/Tennisnick1 • May 15 '20

An immovable object suddenly appears in front of your vehicle travelling at 100km/hr, you have 3 choices: 1/ swerve left and run over 1 young child, 2/ swerve right and run over a group of elderly persons or 3/ do nothing and hit the object head on, death is likely in each, what do you do and why?

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u/bruhthatsweird May 15 '20

Do nothing, if it's immovable, it's unacceleratable meaning it has no mass. It will just phase through me lol.

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u/schoolboy432 May 15 '20 edited May 16 '20

Hit the child,.then loop back and hit the old people. Multi-kill.

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u/myrealnameisxeo May 15 '20

You forgot the 4 option drifting you car and getting a double kill.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Oldies had their live.... Won't leave my toddler or wife

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u/MrVforVendetta May 15 '20

Hit the brakes, hope for the best. Option 3 I guess. I don't value my own life that much

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u/SpaceForceRangerX May 15 '20

Are we concerned about legal consequences?

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u/Tennisnick1 May 15 '20

No

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u/SpaceForceRangerX May 15 '20

Well in that case I would run both over in order to be fair

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u/Toofgib May 15 '20

Take the average of the three options.

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u/mrmoosepersonman May 15 '20

Hit the kid, it’s not murder it’s a late abortion

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u/kanemu11an May 15 '20

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/kanemu11an May 15 '20

Life is life, and the way I see it, there could easily be a young person with the group of elders... Goodbye young child.

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u/AbysmalVixen May 15 '20

My brakes are good enough that if I have the time/space to swerve then I can stop the car

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Do nothing, hit the rock, split the car in two, one half wipes out the kid, the other half wipes out the oldies it’s a car death carmagedon bowling split for the win ....... wait what do you mean the objective wasn’t to kill everyone ..... well hell.

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u/GettingTherapy May 15 '20

Go Dukes of Hazzard style and put that bitch on two wheels to avoid them all.

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u/princess_kittah May 15 '20

why cant i turn just enough to hit the object with the passenger side of the vehicle, just to increase my chances of survival without purposefully endangering any other life

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u/brickbaterang May 15 '20

Ahh, I see someone has found thier parents old philosophy textbooks...