During the test I viewed many of decisions as ridiculous.At one point the decision I had to make was to take action and hit a little girl or not take action and hit a little boy. This was an uncomfortable decision as either way it would end up with a child dead. In the scenario I decided to take action, In my opinion the car should try to avoid an accident in which there are equal opportunity for a loss of life. When looking at my results I agree with them I was completely for saving the most amount of lives which is what I believe a machine would calculate to do as it is technically the most efficient and typically AI tries to find the most efficient option. Although it sounded cruel typically the car should try to protect its passengers …show more content…
When the test ended Compared to everyone else I was all the way to the right when it came to protecting more lives, as well as upholding the law. I was further to the right when it came to Protecting my passengers then everyone else but not fully to the right like the prior two. When it came to avoiding interaction I was pretty much the same as everyone else. When it came to gender I said it basically should have no influence and it was in the middle this category people typically prefered protecting the females, When it came to humans and animals It was pretty far to the human side but not all the way like I was. The fitness preference I decided was not viable for my test results as it varied vastly each time i took the test the rest had some semblance each time I took the test. I do not think these results should be used for a self-driving cars programing. There is no selective group of people creating this AI input which I believe is dangerous. You could have someone who is a psychopath constantly taking this test and having the car always take out the most amount of people. This could tamper with the end survey result. If this test was sent out only to a select group of people and the test was closed off to them after then the test’s results could possibly be viable. I think programming based off our personal ideas of morals is not what company should do. The
In the short story Test, written by Theodore Thomas, the main character Robert Proctor took his driver’s test and failed. However, Robert Proctor was a capable driver subjected to an unfair test and hence, deserves his driver’s license. To start, Robert was not responsible for the collision. This is apparent in the quote, “The blue convertible suddenly swung out from behind the truck without warning.” As it can be seen, Robert was not given any warning or information that the blue convertible would move from its lane, which caused the collision. Due to Robert not being at fault for the collision, it cannot be said that he is a bad driver. To provide further evidence, the quotes “Robert Proctor was a good driver for so young a person.” and “Robert Proctor was too wise to slam on the brakes.” are testimonies to Robert’s
Good Morning, After reading your thread I will have to say I agree with you on the standpoint that Mr. Hochswender does appeal to the target reader from an ethical (ethos), and an emotional (pathos) point of view. The author made a point regarding safety, for example "I would prefer my 9 year old and I not be inside a Corolla if some drunken driver veers across the center divider," (Hochswender, 2015). Mr. Hochswender also states that he does not drive so reckless that he would put himself in a situation to wreck (pg 155), which leads me to believe that driver responsibility plays an integral part in overall safety ratings of the vehicle. While I do agree that the article is persuasive and would appeal to most readers; I do not agree
3. Utilitarians would say that jeopardizing motorists does not by itself make Ford’s action morally objectionable. The only morally relevant matter is whether Ford gave equal consideration to the interests of each affected party. Do you think Ford did this?
Homosexuality is defined or characterized as attraction towards the same gender either male or female. It came from the Greek language, where “homo” means the same or similar, hence referring to the attraction between two beings of the same sex. Homosexuality is also referred as a clinical term. Most male homosexuals generally prefer to be called "gay men" and most homosexual women generally prefer to be called "lesbians." Homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation, alongside bisexual and heterosexual. The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that homosexuality is an example of normal and positive variation in human sexual
My consistency score was fifty percent this was a less than average score compared to seventy-seventy-seven percent others normally get. My answers were somewhat consistent with each other but they differ because each situation is different. If the situations are different then my moral choice will be different. I also believe there are exceptions to every rule you have to look at each situation and decide morally what you think the right thing to do is. Sometimes it may not be what we consider the right thing to do morally but because of that situation it was the closest thing to the right thing that we could chose. The experiment taught me but I am inconsistent with my moral choices and that most people don't feel the same way I do, but I feel my inconsistency is justified due to the fact that I feel each situation has to be judged separate for moral
Many great technological feats have been accomplished in the past few years, one of the most notable would be the creation of self-driving cars. Along with the topic of what can be done with this technology, there is also the topic of what should be done with the technology from an ethical standpoint. Self-driving cars while not perfected are worth their innumerous benefits, despite the current limitations and drawbacks. Every year there are numerous incidents where the driver is responsible for a crash or even death. A self-driving car could be the very solution necessary to solving the abundance of accidents that occur daily across the nation. There are different levels of automation ranging on the amount of the drivers control of the vehicles. This technology is already being implemented in creative and helpful ways, and has been successfully tested.
I find it humorous that this week’s discussion on driverless vehicles is the same exact subject my wife and I were talking about on Sunday during our unscheduled trip back home from Kansas City, Missouri. Since this trip interfered with our other plans, we were discussing how pleasant it would be if our vehicle was one that was automated because we believed we had better things to do with our time. Actually, this idea was even more evident when we became stalled in a traffic jam due to a stalled vehicle on the road. Therefore, if I were a decision maker in regards to driverless vehicles, I would choose Egoism to be the most ethical pre-programmed crash decision software. (O.C. Ferrell, Fraedrich & L. Ferrell, 2013). The reason I chose Egoism
The article was about one of the most brought up topics recently in cars. Which is the evolution of cars in which they are programed to be able to operate themselves. Or As the article suggested driverless cars. The article fist started with the introduction asking questions about the drivers and how they can get distracted easily. For example one question asked “Might the driver choose to speed up as he approaches a yellow light at an intersection, in order to avoid stopping short when the red light comes on”. They start asking these questions so that the reading can understand what the average driver thinks during a drive. After the questions end they start to compare the driverless car to your standard driver. They state how every decision made on the road has a practical and moral component to them. Also that driverless cars don’t have this problem since they have
When dealing with autonomous cars, there are many ethical questions raised that need to be answered before they are released on the road. Like if the vehicle is in a situation where it would either hit a person or an oncoming car, which would it choose? Or would the vehicle choose to crash itself into a wall, possibly injuring the occupants?
Currently one of the main topics of discussion in the AI community is self driving cars. Self driving cars would be much safer than manually operated cars and with a lot of work they could even be developed to form a network across the country they are in so that they can “talk” to each other. This would greatly reduce the amount of deaths resulting from cars. However self driving cars have also raised plenty of issues such as the fact they could put many professional drivers out of work. Furthermore there are many moral issues raised by automated cars, the trolley problem, a problem involving choosing between killing one or more persons as opposed to another group/person, is a very popular theory right now as self driving cars would have to
In the recent years, the United States government has been enforcing stricter mandates on auto manufacturers to create safer vehicles, and on construction companies to create safer roadways. Matthew Jensen wrote a dissertation for the Graduate School of Clemson University titled, A Methodology for the Analysis of In-vehicle Operating Data and Design of Intelligent Vehicle Systems for Improved Automotive Safety. In his abstract, Jensen evaluated the future of vehicle manufacturing and traffic-related incidents. Of course, every year more vehicles are manufactured, which in theory means the number of miles driven in vehicles increases. He points out how the World Health Organization (WHO) found that automobile crashes was the ninth
Procedure - Participants shown seven videos of car crashes ranging from 4 to 30 seconds long. The videos were excerpts from drivers ed courses so the researchers were aware of the speeds of the cars. The videos were shown to the participants in random order. After each video participants were given a questionnaire which asked them to give an account of the film they had seen. Then they were asked to answer some questions based on what they had seen. Most of the questions were 'filler
Experiment 1 comprised of Forty-Five students, they were split into groups of various sizes and were shown seven short clips ranging from 5 to 30 seconds of road traffic collisions. Each participant would then receive a questionnaire following each film
What is gender nonconforming? Is it the same thing as being transgender? The answer is no. According to GLAAD (2017), gender nonconforming and transgender are umbrella terms, therefore, gender nonconforming people do not always identify themselves as transgender and not all transgender people are gender nonconforming. Gender nonconforming is a term used to describe people whose behavior and/or appearance is different from prevailing expectations of masculinity and femininity (GLAAD, 2017). Transgender is a term for people whose gender expression and gender identity are different than the gender they were assigned at birth (GLAAD, 2017).
First of all, making a moral decision in some emergency situation may be impossible for an autonomous car. Newcomb (2014) mentions the “tunnel problem” which was a hypothesis about autonomous cars in emergency. There was an autonomous car traveling in a single-lane highway, and a boy who was crossing inside tumbled when the car was going into a tunnel. The car had to strike either side of the tunnel entrance with sacrificing the life of passengers, otherwise hit the boy to death. In this situation, whichever the autonomous car choice, it will take the blame of immorality. Specifically, if an autonomous car was set as