Ethical Challenges and Countermeasures of Autonomous Vehicles

Responsibility for Crashes of Autonomous Vehicles: An Ethical Analysis

A number of companies including Google and BMW are currently working on the development of autonomous cars. But if fully autonomous cars are going to drive on our roads, it must be decided who is to be held responsible in case of accidents. This involves not only legal questions, but also moral ones. The first question discussed is whether we should try to design the tort liability for car manu...

A Safety-Case Approach to Ethical Considerations for Autonomous Vehicles

Ethical considerations for autonomous vehicles (AVs) go beyond the “trolley problem” to include such aspects as risk / benefit trade-offs, informed consent, risk responsibility and risk mitigation within a system of systems. In this paper we present a methodology for arguing that the behaviour of a given AV meets desired ethical characteristics. We identify some of the ethical imperatives surro...

Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles - A Compendium

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Opportunities and Challenges with Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles

We survey the recent work on micro-UAVs, a fast-growing field in robotics, outlining the opportunities for research and applications, along with the scientific and technological challenges. Micro-UAVs can operate in three-dimensional environments, explore and map multi-story buildings, manipulate and transport objects, and even perform such tasks as assembly. While fixed-base industrial robots ...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES