Never Mind the Trolley: The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles in Mundane Situations

Trolley cases are widely considered central to the ethics of autonomous vehicles. We caution against this by identifying four problems. (1) Trolley cases, given technical limitations, rest on assumptions that are in tension with one another. Furthermore, (2) trolley cases illuminate only a limited r...

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Main Author: Himmelreich, Johannes (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2018]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 669-684
RelBib Classification:NCA Ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Self-driving cars
B Methodology
B Driverless cars
B Applied Ethics
B Ethics of self-driving cars
B Trolley Problem
B Ethics of autonomous vehicles
B Autonomous vehicles
B Ethics of technology
B thought experiments
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