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Driverless cars
- In recent years the driverless car, as it can be seen in some science-fiction movies, is already a reality.
- This technology is not yet allowed on the majority of roads and needs to be further developed because it causes some ethics problems.
- “Driverless cars need a crash course in ethics” is an article published in The Time, the August 13th 2016.
- This article talks about the evaluation of the driverless cars moral choices during an accident.
- It explains that the choices algorithm of a driverless car must not only have a technical dimension but also a moral dimension.
- In fact, during an accident, the moral dimension is very important because, referring to the first sentence of this article “Impending road accidents require drivers to make split-second decisions, calculating which action will cause the least damage”.
- The question that we can asked us with driverless cars is: what do we tell the car to do in the event of complex life-and-death decision?
- This article explains that the French and American researchers conducted a study to know what the public decide to save between pedestrians and passengers of car in event of a self-driving car being involved in an accident in order to provoke a public discussion around the questions of regulating artificial intelligence.
- Scenarios of accident are ethically complex and involve difficult driverless cars decisions because the program doesn’t have a real social dimension.
- This articles also explains that Scientifics have created a simulator named “The Moral Machine” in order to collect the decisions of people during an accident.
- About 150,000 respondents answered 13 randomly generated questions and, each questions was an evil situation.
- The results are collected for improve the moral choices of the driverless car.
- However there appear to be cultural differences in the moral choices.
- For example, some people even choose to spare animals over humans because they own pets and are adamant on protecting pets at all cost.
- That is why the society will have to deal with strike an acceptable balance
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