The Ethics of Accident-Algorithms for Self-Driving Cars: an Applied Trolley Problem?

Self-driving cars hold out the promise of being safer than manually driven cars. Yet they cannot be a 100 % safe. Collisions are sometimes unavoidable. So self-driving cars need to be programmed for how they should respond to scenarios where collisions are highly likely or unavoidable. The accident-...

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Main Author: Nyholm, Sven (Author)
Contributors: Smids, Jilles (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2016]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 5, Pages: 1275-1289
RelBib Classification:NCA Ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Decision-making
B Self-driving cars
B Moral and legal responsibility
B The trolley problem
B Risks and uncertainty
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