Abstract Road vehicle travel at a reasonable speed involves some risk, even when using computer-controlled driving with failure-free hardware and perfect sensing. A fully-automated vehicle must continuously decide how to allocate this risk without a human driver’s oversight. These are ethical decisions, particularly in instances where an automated vehicle cannot avoid crashing. In this chapter, I introduce the concept of moral behavior for an automated vehicle, argue the need for research in this area through responses to anticipated critiques, and discuss relevant applications from machine ethics and moral modeling research.


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    Title :

    Machine Ethics and Automated Vehicles


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    Edition :

    2014


    Publication date :

    2014-01-01


    Size :

    10 pages





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    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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