Commentary: Using Virtual Reality to Assess Ethical Decisions in Road Traffic Scenarios: Applicability of Value-of-Life-Based Models and Influences of Time Pressure.

Geoff Keeling

doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00247

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Commentary: Using Virtual Reality to Assess Ethical Decisions in Road Traffic Scenarios: Applicability of Value-of-Life-Based Models and Influences of Time Pressure.

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Edited by: Nuno Sousa, Instituto de Pesquisa em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (ICVS), Portugal
Given that Sütfeld et al.’s answer to the moral design problem depends on the plausibility of this inference, they owe an account of why this inference is plausible before we are justified in accepting their answer
Sütfeld et al propose to take descriptive about human snap-decisions in virtual reality collisions as an indicator of how Autonomous vehicles (AVs) ought to be programmed in analogous contexts

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Edited by: Nuno Sousa, Instituto de Pesquisa em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (ICVS), Portugal. Reviewed by: Nadine Correia Santos, University of Minho, Portugal Using Virtual Reality to Assess Ethical Decisions in Road Traffic Scenarios: Applicability of Value-of-Life-Based Models and Influences of Time Pressure by Sütfeld, L.

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