Four Perspectives on What Matters for the Ethics of Automated Vehicles

Geoff Keeling,Giulio Mecacci,Sarah M Thornton,Katherine Evans,Filippo Santoni De Sio

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22933-7_6

Four Perspectives on What Matters for the Ethics of Automated Vehicles

Geoff Keeling, Giulio Mecacci + Show 3 more

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22933-7_6

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019

Citations: 16

Affiliation: Leverhulme Trust, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, VeDeCoM Institute, Sorbonne Université

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The ethical discussion on automated vehicles (AVs) has for the most part focused on what morality requires in AV collisions which present moral dilemmas. This discussion has been challenged for its failure to address the various kinds of risk and uncertainty which we can expect to arise in AV collisions; and for overlooking certain morally relevant facts which are unique to the context of AVs. We take these criticisms as a starting point and outline four perspectives on what matters for the ethics of AVs: risk and uncertainty, value sensitive design, partiality towards passengers and meaningful human control.

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