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Why Ethics Matters for Autonomous Cars
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If motor vehicles are to be truly autonomous and able to operate responsibly on our roads, they will need to replicate – or do better than – the human decision-making process. But some decisions are more than just a mechanical application of traffic laws and plotting a safe path. They seem to require a sense of ethics, and this is a notoriously difficult capability to reduce into algorithms for a computer to follow.
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- Lin, P.
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- California Polytechnic State University (US)
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- Lin, Patrick
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- Autonomes Fahren
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- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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- Keywords
- autonomous vehicles, ethics, ethical decision-making, algorithmic decision-making, human drivers, traffic law, road safety, machine ethics
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