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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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“This fact explains philosophers' fascination with the question as to how autonomous vehicles should resolve this 'trolley problem' that will inevitably arise once enough autonomous vehicles are on the roads, wherein the computer must decide who lives or dies in circumstances where the death of someone is unavoidable (Lin, 2015, p. 78).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lin, P.
- Affiliations
- California Polytechnic State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lin, Patrick
- ORCID
- Lin, Patrick
- Venue
- Autonomes Fahren
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 69-85
- OpenAlex
- W4238827160
- Cited by
- 189
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 8
- FWCI
- 35.10
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- de
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Springer eBooks (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Keywords
- autonomous vehicles, ethics, ethical decision-making, algorithmic decision-making, human drivers, traffic law, road safety, machine ethics
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