Automated vehicle (AV) as a social agent in a dynamic traffic environment mixed with other road users, will encounter risk situations compelling it to make decisions in complex dilemmas. This paper presents the AVEthics (Ethics policy for Automated Vehicles) project. AVEthics aims to provide a framework for an ethics policy for the artificial intelligence of an AV in order to regulate its inter...

Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

providing a perfect instruction to authors can prevent most potential publication ethics errors. this study was conducted to determine the quality of ethical considerations in the instructions to the authors of iranian research scientific journals of medical sciences (accredited by the commission for accreditation and improvement of iranian medical journals) in october 2011. checklist items (n=...

ethics is an essential requirement for a sound and healthy society. it is due to its positive individual, organizational, and social consequences that ethics has always provoked scholars, instructors, and organization managers to try to maintain and improve it. the adaptation of managerial solutions will gradually result in the improvement of trust, commitment, and effort which are all necessar...