Self-Driving Car Ethical Dilemmas

Vehicles that drive themselves is a concept that is often thought about in futuristic movies or science fiction novels. Throughout, history mankind has been fascinated with robots and cars that could work without humans. Advanced technology is getting closer to making these futuristic ideas the real thing. Living in an advanced technological time would society be ready for this to happen and how far away is this from becoming a reality?

According to today's society, we can see a drastic change in technology today. Most Americans today tend to believe that self-driving cars are going to become very widespread over the next couple decades. The purpose of self-driving cars are to dramatically reduce traffic accidents; In other words, self-driving cars will be safer and more efficient than a normal car. For example, Psychologist Peter Hancock in his article titled, “Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers” asserts that over 90 percent of car crashes in the U.S. have been due to human error. ASIRT (Association for safe international road travel) has also calculated that, “Over 1.3 million people die every year from

This opinion article addressing the cons of the rising technology of self-driving cars will be published in the LA Times. Readers of the LA Times are educated, affluent citizens who tend to have liberal ideologies.

Our future is intense and frightening, but overall, unpredictable. We will have driverless cars soon in our world. They will overtake our roads and means of transportation. In my opinion, I think there is both good and bad with these driverless cars. There is both pros and cons dealing with this future. This future for cars will reduce drunk driving, reduce traffic jams, and reduce expense on the driver and our planet. The downside however, will come with putting millions out of business. Driverless cars are technology, and technology is not perfect, it sometimes crashes and does not always work the way we want it to. We do know that humanity is not perfect either. Humanity makes mistakes just as much as technology. So in this essay, I will talk about perspective one, perspective two, and perspective three, all talking about how driverless cars are good and bad for the future of our world.

Self-driving cars are the first theoretically lethal robots we will meet, but they will not be the last. At some point, we may need a broader solution, like a federal robotics commission.

Self-driving cars are very useful in many ways. For example, self-driving cars can prevent crashes because most crashes are because of human error, and there are no ways for a self- driving car can get “distracted”. However, self-driving cars have some limitations to what they can do, and makers can access to these situations quite easily.

Autonomous vehicles are coming to be a reality soon, but are theses driverless vehicles really safe. Autonomous vehicles drive themselves and make all the decisions for you, but if you get into certain situations where a wreck cannot be avoided, then the vehicle might put your life behind others. One side of this issue deals with the error in programing and the fact that people do not want to their lives in a computer's hand. While the other side of the issue deals with how much autonomous technology will improve safety on roads and cut the rate of deaths due to crashes, drastically. So are autonomous vehicles the safest, most dependable, and most convenient or untrustworthy, flawed, and dangerous new technology for vehicles?

The article, “Top 20 Pros and Cons Associated with Self-Driving Cars” provided by Auto Insurance Center, had very solid points about the benefits of self-driving cars. However, there are many holes in these plans but I do not see this happening until the very distant future. I believe it is human nature for all of us to want to be in control. Especially when there is a possible risk for your life, no matter how small it might be. Don’t get me wrong, I think there are so many positive outcomes from self-driving cars, but the negatives out way the positives.

Drivers set a maximum speed as one would on normal cruise control. Then, in some ACC devices, there is an option to set a 3, 4 or 5 second delay between cars. The combination of setting a max speed and time gap give the controller parameters to actuate the throttle and brake. In self-driving cars, the ACC device is more so necessary rather than crucial because the autonomous cars need to sense the cars directly in front and also cars in the adjacent lanes since lane changing is one of the tasks an autonomous car

With the introduction of self-driving cars an unspoken dilemma has emerged that very few individuals have discussed and that is should a self-driving car kill the owner to save the lives of others? In the first article critique, the Insurance Journal poses the question on what ethical system a self-driving car will adhere to and in addition to this, should the driver or owner be able to choose and adjust that ethical system? In the article, the author reaches out to Ameen Barghi of Oxford University for the options. Barghi stated that there are two philosophical approaches to autonomous cars, one being utilitarianism which says to do what will produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number or people or on the other hand, deontology which argues that some values are simply always true (Insurance Journal, 2015). In addition to this, Barghi adds that once an ethical system has been chosen, it can be further detailed such as will the decisions be based off rule or act utilitarianism (Insurance Journal, 2015).

An era of self-driving cars may still be 20 plus years away but the ground work for their introduction and implementation is being laid out right now. It's important to understand that situations where a self-driving vehicle can’t predict and react to an accident will be extremely rare fringe cases that should not control the whole argument or sway the opinions of the public. The public should not be swayed by hypothetical moral decisions that your car may have to make. There are numerous benefits that such technology will bring with it to be impeded and delayed by the vocal minority that may not know all of the facts. Self-driving cars will bring with them another level of road safety where the public can fully relax during commutes and where

When I read this essay, I had an idea of what self driving cars were, but, what I didn't know was how unsafe they were!

Google as one of the leading tech companies in the world always tries to come out with new ideas. Their recent project is developing an autonomous car. Autonomous car is a car that can drive by itself without any assistance, using technologies, such as sensors, camera, radar, and GPS. According to Google, deaths from traffic accidents are over 1.2 million worldwide every year and 94% of them are caused by human error. From this fact, they decided to create an autonomous car that is more practical and safer. Even though it seems like a promising idea, they are currently facing some legal barriers. For instance, California rules prohibit the use of an autonomous car that does not have a steering wheel or a brake pedal. A licensed operator must

Autonomous vehicles are marketed as being able to operate without the assistance of a human driver. For example, California-based Waymo made a commercial that showed passengers taking selfies in the back seat of its self-driving minivan. However, autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles still require the watchful eye of a driver in order to prevent accidents. This became clear when an Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian in March.

Since its foundation of the commercial auto industry in the late 1800s, cars have become progressively safe and convenient. Although self-driving cars may still seem like a realm of science fiction novels, many carmakers project self-driving cars will be available before 2020. This report initiates by describing background and key definitions of current capabilities as well as opportunities and risks for existing carmakers are reviewed, along with a discussion on the impact of such advances