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....
As the most recent crash – in which aself-driving car killed a pedestrianin Tempe, Arizona – demonstrates, the mundane, everyday situations at every crosswalk, turn and intersection present much harder and broader ethical quandaries. Ethics of extremes As aphilosopherworking with engineers ...
The study is especially relevant considering earlier this year a self-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...
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
Other challenges of self-driving cars also include thecost to produce and test these vehiclesas well as the ethics involved in them being programmed to react a certain way in different situations. Weather conditions can also be considered a challenge. The sensors on some vehicles that are used ...
Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal - Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. Amy Maxmen Self-driving cars are being developed by several major technology companies and carmakers. credit: VCG/Getty ...
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?
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...
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...
aspects of a car's duty of care, it comes down to a few simple rules such as maintaining a safe following distance and driving at a reasonable and prudent speed. In that sense, it starts to look a little bit like RSS because we can basically set various margins of safety around the ...