Doubting Driverless Dilemmas

The alarm has been raised on so-called driverless dilemmas, in which autonomous vehicles will need to make high-stakes ethical decisions on the road. We argue that these arguments are too contrived to be of practical use, are an inappropriate method for making decisions on issues of safety, and shou...

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Published inPerspectives on psychological science Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 1284 - 1288
Main Authors De Freitas, Julian, Anthony, Sam E., Censi, Andrea, Alvarez, George A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2020
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Decision making
Inappropriateness
Vehicles
driverless policy
moral judgment
autonomous vehicles
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Summary:The alarm has been raised on so-called driverless dilemmas, in which autonomous vehicles will need to make high-stakes ethical decisions on the road. We argue that these arguments are too contrived to be of practical use, are an inappropriate method for making decisions on issues of safety, and should not be used to inform engineering or policy.
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ISSN:1745-6916
1745-6924
DOI:10.1177/1745691620922201