Medtem ko je projekt samovozil v Applu in Googlu očitno v fazi "preračunavam", ko v ZDA razglabljajo o nacionalni (ne)varnosti samovozil, v Nemčiji pa imajo etično komisijo zanje, Bloomberg poroča, da je Bill Ford, pravnuk Henryja Forda vse vpletene in pristojne pozval k čimprejšnjemu premisleku o tozadevnih etičnih vprašanjih.

The great-grandson of Henry Ford called on the auto industry and public institutions to address ethical issues emerging in a world where robot cars will make life-and-death decisions in roadway crashes -- and to do it soon.
“These cars will have the ability to process data and make decisions much faster than we will as humans,” said Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., which has promised to have robot taxis on the road by 2021. “No individual company is going to program these vehicles with a set of ethics that isn’t bought into by society at large.”
The discussion to set robot-car ethics must include the auto industry, government, universities and ethicists, said Ford, who commented to reporters Tuesday after a speech at the company’s headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. With self-driving cars set to hit the road over the next five years, the need for this discussion is urgent, he said.
“How do you want these vehicles to behave?” Ford asked during his speech. “Whose lives are they going to save?”
www.bloomberg.com/ne...-ford-says

Spiegel poroča, da naj bi Franz Beckenbauer funkcije predsednika organizacijskega odbora svetovnega prvenstva v nogometu 2006 ne opravljal brezplačno, ampak naj bi za to prejel 5,5 milijona evrov. Beckenbauer in nemška nogometna zveza sta ta zaslužek očitno hotela skriti pred davčnim uradom. Beckenbauerjev zaslužek naj bi bil obdavčen šele leta 2010, štiri leta po prejemu denarja, naj bi razkril audit davčnega urada v Frankfurtu. Državni ponudnik športnih stav Oddset je očitno služil kot obvoden kanal za Beckenbauerjev zaslužek.

Neue Enthüllung im WM-Skandal: Anders als bisher vom DFB dargestellt, hat Franz Beckenbauer nach SPIEGEL-Informationen für seine Arbeit als Chef des Organisationskomitees 5,5 Millionen Euro erhalten - und wollte sie offenbar am Finanzamt vorbeischleusen.
www.spiegel.de/sport...12166.html