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trolley | American Dictionary

trolley
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtrɑl·i/(alsotrolley car, us/ˈtrɑl·i ˌkɑr/); (streetcar)
an electric vehicle that transports people, usually in cities, and goes along metal tracks in the road

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Besides, unlike the mass center position, the trolley position is easily measured.
It apparently can matter whether the lesser evil is directly or indirectly caused, by, for example, turning the trolley.
But if a required crane displacement is large enough, the trolley moves with the maximal possible velocity the most part of the movement duration.
Having diverted the trolley, you now face the allegedly new problem of the trolley's hurtling towards the five after circling.
The trolley is heading towards destroying a tool, but can be diverted to a track with one person on it.
For a desktop (or trolley mounted) robotic system, just the first three categories are likely to be relevant.
Here the accidental trolley driver is on the scene and has exclusive control over where the trolley goes and what the consequences will be.
The system shares many common components with the trolley-mounted system - this introduces additional constraints.
Hence, there is a noncausal relation between the trolley turning away and the five being saved.
A motor actuates the motion of the trolley.
Why is it permissible for us to turn the trolley and cause a death but not use the gas?
I suggested that there may be moral problems with turning the trolley only in the first case.
On an average weekday, 170, 000 people use the trolley.
It also creates a new problem: that of the trolley's looping around and hitting the five from behind.
Nor would we require the bad man in any of the trolley cases to refrain from turning the trolley.
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