Since we live in a capitalism, financial losses are the only one anyone cares about at scale. What's a human life worth nowadays? About 10 million for a healthy prime age adult? Negative for elderly?
I think it depends what passport etc. you hold...
One dystopian take is the trolley problem, where the self-driving car in question uses smartphones to determine the identity of the people involved, to work out who is cheaper to kill.
That reminds me of why McDonalds got such a high penalty in the court case everyone remembers as "person sues for spilling hot coffee on themselves".
The reason this reminds me of that, assuming that I remember right, is that I think they had even taken the decision that the cost of paying lawsuits for those injuries was lower than the increase in revenue for being able to say "we have the hottest coffee"… and that was why they were deemed so severely liable.
They were definitely shown to have known it was resulting in injuries from other settlements:
Not true. Making C-level executives of software companies criminally liable with the chance to go to jail did change their behaviour in some recent lawmaking situation (forgot which, sorry).
