''Cardboard Crash'' is a 2015

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

(NFB) mobile app and virtual reality work developed by Vincent McCurley, exploring the ethical issues of

autonomous car A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car, driver-less car, or robotic car (robo-car), is a car that is capable of traveling without human input.Xie, S.; Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Ding, Z.; Arvin, F.,Distributed Motion Planning for S ...

s. Produced for the NFB in Vancouver by

Loc Dao Loc Dao is a Canadian digital media creator who is the chief digital officer (CDO) of the National Film Board of Canada. Dao was named CDO in March 2016, after serving as executive producer and creative technologist for the NFB English-language ...

, ''Cardboard Crash'' explores the ethical consequences of self-driving car algorithms and how should they be chosen. It presents users in a scenario where they are driving with a child in the vehicle and a road incident presents them with three alternative actions: veering left and colliding with a family, driving into a truck, or turning right, off a cliff. The accident-in-progress is slowed down to

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, as users are forced to make the choices a computer might have to make, with no ideal solution. ''Cardboard Crash'' was selected to the 2015 DocLab program at the

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as well as the New Frontier section of

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. In April 2016, it received the

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for Online Film & Video/ VR: Gaming, Interactive, or Real-time (Branded), as ''The NFB’s Cardboard Crash VR for

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''. In November 2016, it received the award for Best Mobile Entertainment at the Digi Awards.

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