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[Isaac Asimov] 5 humans are tied to a rail track..

5 humans are tied to a rail track and a train car is speeding towards them, a robot near by sees this and identifies a lever which can divert the train car to an alternate track, however another human is on the other track also tied in position. How does an android handle the situation given the three laws of robotics?
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Assuming there's no other way of stopping the train (it being too far away for the robot to get in the way of.

I think it would depend on how advanced the robot's positronic brain is. An early robot would be caught in a loop that would fry their circuitry, leaving them unable to save anyone. A more advanced robot would save the 5 people, then have their positronic brain melt down. A robot with some rudimentary understanding of the zeroth law *may* be able to save the 5 people without having a complete breakdown.