The ethical knob : ethically-customisable automated vehicles and the law

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dc.contributor.authorCONTISSA, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.authorLAGIOIA, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorSARTOR, Giovanni
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-13T10:24:03Z
dc.date.available2019-02-13T10:24:03Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionPublished Online: 11 September 2017en
dc.description.abstractAccidents involving autonomous vehicles (AVs) raise difficult ethical dilemmas and legal issues. It has been argued that self-driving cars should be programmed to kill, that is, they should be equipped with pre-programmed approaches to the choice of what lives to sacrifice when losses are inevitable. Here we shall explore a different approach, namely, giving the user/passenger the task (and burden) of deciding what ethical approach should be taken by AVs in unavoidable accident scenarios. We thus assume that AVs are equipped with what we call an “Ethical Knob”, a device enabling passengers to ethically customise their AVs, namely, to choose between different settings corresponding to different moral approaches or principles. Accordingly, AVs would be entrusted with implementing users’ ethical choices, while manufacturers/programmers would be tasked with enabling the user’s choice and ensuring implementation by the AV.en
dc.identifier.citationArtificial intelligence and law, 2017, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 365–378en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10506-017-9211-z
dc.identifier.endpage378en
dc.identifier.issn1572-8382
dc.identifier.issn0924-8463
dc.identifier.issue3en
dc.identifier.startpage365en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/61048
dc.identifier.volume25en
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dc.titleThe ethical knob : ethically-customisable automated vehicles and the lawen
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