Machine Ethics and Automated Vehicles
Lecture notes in mobilityPublished 1 January 2014Open access
Noah J. Goodall
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This chapter introduces the concept of moral behavior for an automated vehicle, argues the need for research in this area through responses to anticipated critiques, and discusses relevant applications from machine ethics and moral modeling research.
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Road vehicle travel at a reasonable speed involves some risk, even when using\ncomputer-controlled driving with failure-free hardware and perfect sensing. A\nfully-automated vehicle must continuously decide how to allocate this risk\nwithout a human driver's oversight. These are ethical decisions, particularly\nin instances where an automated vehicle cannot avoid crashing. In this chapter,\nI introduce the concept of moral behavior for an automated vehicle, argue the\nneed for research in this area through responses to anticipated critiques, and\ndiscuss relevant applications from machine ethics and moral modeling research.\n
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