The Ethical Dilemma of Self-driving CarsThis is a thought experiment. Let's say at some point in the not so distant future, you're barreling down the highway in your self-driving car, and you find yourself boxed in on all sides by...
And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. How should the car be programmed if it encounters an unavoidable accident? Patrick Lin navigates the murky ethics of self-driving cars....
The Waymo project is an example of a self-driving car that's almost entirely autonomous. It still requires a human driver to be present, but only to override the system when necessary. It isn't self-driving in the purest sense, but it can drive itself in ideal conditions and has a hig...
Some car companies are listening. Barbara Wege, who heads a group focused on autonomous-vehicle ethics at Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany, says such studies are valuable. Wege argues that self-driving cars would cause fewer accidents, proportionally, than human drivers do each year — but that event...
driving Uber car struck and killed a passenger in Arizona, in an incident widely regarded as the first death resulting from an autonomous vehicle. An ethics commission launched by the German Ministry for Transportation has created a set of guidelines, representing its members' best judgement on a...
engineers could certainly hard-code the rules. when big moral dilemmas come up---or even small ones---the self-driving car would just shift to doing exactly what the software says. but then the ethics would lie in the hands of the engineers who wrote the software. it might seem like th...
skip to main content the lose-lose ethics of testing self-driving cars in public the true ethical dilemma with driverless cars isn't the trolley problem—it's whether we should be testing them on public streets at all. how, exactly do we feel about unleashing self-driving tech on public ...
The surprising finding is that people are much more willing to ride in a self-driving car that might kill them to save several pedestrians than in a car that would save them but kill pedestrians. Asian respondents had significantly different preferences
It isn’t just the ability to make tough decisions that must be considered in the ethics of autonomous vehicles though. When humans ourselves cannot agree on which ethical framework would best answer the Trolley Problem, how are we meant to program self-driving cars to weigh u...
Ethics of extremes As aphilosopherworking with engineers inStanford's Center for Automotive Research, I was initially surprised that we spent our lab meetings discussing what I thought was an easy question: How should a self-driving car approach a crosswalk?