Abstract
Response: Commentary: Using Virtual Reality to Assess Ethical Decisions in Road Traffic Scenarios: Applicability of Value-of-Life-Based Models and Influences of Time Pressure.
Highlights
A response on Edited by: Nuno Sousa, Instituto de Pesquisa em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (ICVS), Portugal
In the paper discussed (Sütfeld et al, 2017), we examined the feasibility of using virtual reality (VR) as an assessment method for models of human moral behavior in road traffic scenarios
We consider this study to be a contribution to the discussion about ethical decision-making systems in autonomous vehicles (AVs)
Summary
In a recent commentary on this paper, Keeling (2017) brings up two objections to the approach:. Keeling argues that we use this to infer the validity of the metaethical position of particularism (Dancy, 1983), and that this inference is not necessarily justified. He further contends that our “answer to the moral design problem depends on the plausibility of this inference.”. We conclude that these are highly dependent on contextual factors. We argue that in order to learn about our behavior and moral intuitions in a particular real-world scenario, it is reasonable to match the contextual factors of the assessment with those of the scenario in question, making the case for a VR assessment
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