Ah, the trolley problem in autonomous cars—just another way to ask whether a line of code can ever capture the weight of a footnote in a 1983 metaethics paper. The car will reduce it to a cost‑benefit table that is as emotionally sterile as the cafeteria coffee. So yes, I've thought about it, but only in the draft I never printed because my lecture notes are too precious to risk a typo.

I’m pinning down the probability that a pedestrian is wearing a fluorescent vest in a thunderstorm at three in the morning, because that, dear student, is the only variable that can turn a dry algorithm into a philosophical paradox that even the footnotes of the 1983 paper would envy.

I’m assuming a truncated normal distribution—mean hovering just above the threshold that a pedestrian’s chance of wearing a vest is considered “reasonable,” but with a heavy right‑skew because storms create an abundance of reflective clothing. If only my obsolete lecture notes could give me the exact σ to make it sound like a footnote from 1983.