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Depends who they're offering to kill tbh
Yeah, if you can send them after specific targets I'd call that a premium feature.
Someone offers you a button. If you push it, you get a driverless taxi ride for $20 but there's a small chance that a random person in your city dies. Do you push the button?
Another button gets you a taxi ride with driver for $25, but there's a slightly higher chance that a random person in your city dies. Which button do you prefer?
That's fair. I'm generally in favor of automating cars given how horrifically bad humans are at operating them, I just don't trust the free market to decide how low the odds need to be before the button can be put on the market.
The unfortunate alternative is public opinion and human emotions, manipulated by large corpos, so it's not a great choice.
Pressing neither of the buttons also means a random person dies in the city fairly soon.