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More Than Trolleys: Plausible, Ethically Ambiguous Scenarios Likely to Be Encountered by Automated Vehicles (June 2019)

Noah Goodall (Author)

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Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 45-58
Publication date: June 2019
Language: English

DOI: 10.3167/TRANS.2019.090204

URI: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/9/2/trans090204.xml

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Technology and ethics Technological innovation Ethics Case studies Autonomous vehicles Risk Mobility Automation 21st century

As the act of driving becomes increasingly automated, vehicles will encounter situations where different objectives of safety, mobility, and legality will come into conflict. These situations require a vehicle to compare relative values of different entities and objectives, where the action of the vehicle has a moral component. While discussion of these scenarios often focuses on the “trolley problem” thought experiment, these types of life-or-death moral dilemmas may be rare in practice. This article identifies four far more common examples of routine driving that require decisions with some level of ethical reasoning about how to distribute risk. These scenarios may be useful for automated vehicle developers in assessing vehicle safety and responding to potential future regulations, as well as for regulators in developing performance requirements.

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