What's The Right Thing To Do?

For the past week, I’ve gotten the liberty to attend Harvard University to take a class on justice. The professor’s name is Michael Sanders. He started the class off by introducing the topic to us as Justice: What’s the right thing to do? I believe the next thing was a do now, he was telling us a story. He told the story so that we can imagine it as if it was us in that position. The story was about you driving your car, and your brakes stop working, then you notice straight ahead that there are five workers in the way. Then you realize there is a construction work sign and you can’t enter. So you’d end up killing those five people. However, your steering wheel still work and you can turn to the right and not kill those five people. Here’s a plot twist, there is one worker on the right side. What’s the right thing to do?
He’s the type of professor that made you really think to yourself, morality definitely plays a role here. My mindset the entire time students were answering was: how can you answer that? I’d scream at the top of my lungs til they move, then jump out of the car, but the professor said there is no other option but to take the life of 1 or take the life of 5. One student answered, “ I’d steer to the right, and kill the one, because it’s better to kill one person then five people. I didn’t even want to continue the class however Professor Sanders really made you think, and question morals and perspective on human