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Fully Autonomous Driving: Where Technology and Ethics Meet

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Abstract:

The prospect of automatized car traffic confronts ethics, law, and politics with novel and far-reaching questions. It cannot be excluded that automatized cars meet with c...Show More

Abstract:

The prospect of automatized car traffic confronts ethics, law, and politics with novel and far-reaching questions. It cannot be excluded that automatized cars meet with critical situations in which losses of life and limb are inevitable and in which the necessity arises to negotiate between two or more evils. Despite all security measures, a residual risk is unavoidable, which raises questions: How safe is safe enough? How safe is too safe? This contribution argues that it is important to clearly separate between the tasks of technology and ethics as well as between the responsibilities of different stakeholders.
Published in: IEEE Intelligent Systems ( Volume: 32, Issue: 5, September/October 2017)
Page(s): 3 - 4
Date of Publication: 18 October 2017

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