Autonomous Vehicle Ethics

Dr. Ryan Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and a former Co-Chair of the Robot Ethics Technical Committee of the IEEE. He studies the ethics of emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, and driverless cars. He has served on two NSF grants to study the ethical, legal, and social implications of autonomous vehicles. He has published extensively in academic journals and his work has appeared in public fora including the Washington Post, Slate, and Forbes.Dr. David Cerný is a research fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is a founding member of the Karel Capek Center for Values in Science and Technology. His research interests range from normative to applied ethics, primarily focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics, and medical ethics. He has served on two Technology Agency of the Czech Republic grants to investigate the ethical implications of autonomous vehicles and end-of-life decisions. He also served as an expert at the European Commission. Czech media often interview him on issues related to applied ethics, and his work has appeared in public fora.Dr. Tomás Hríbek is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Together with David Cerný, he is the founder of the Karel Capek Center for Values in Science and Technology. He has published on topics ranging from philosophy of mind and science, to ethics (particularly bioethics, and more recently the ethics of emerging technologies) and aesthetics. He also teaches at several colleges, including Charles University and Anglo-American University, in his hometown of Prague.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction PART I Autonomous Vehicles and Trolley ProblemsIntroduction by David Cerný Chapter 1. Ethics and Risk Distribution for Autonomous VehiclesNicholas G. EvansChapter 2. Autonomous Vehicles, the Badness of Death, and DiscriminationDavid CernýChapter 3. Automated Vehicles and the Ethics of ClassificationGeoff KeelingChapter 4. Trolleys and Autonomous Vehicles: New Foundations for the Ethics of Machine LearningJeff Behrends and John BaslChapter 5. The Trolley Problem and the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles in the Eyes of the Public: Experimental EvidenceAkira Inoue, Kazumi Shimizu, Daisuke Udagawa, and Yoshiki WakamatsuChapter 6. Autonomous Vehicles in Drivers' School: A Non- Western PerspectiveSoraj Hongladarom and Daniel D. NovotnýChapter 7. Autonomous Vehicles and Normative PluralismSaul SmilanskyChapter 8. Discrimination in Algorithmic Trolley ProblemsDerek Leben PART II Ethical Issues Beyond the Trolley ProblemIntroduction by Ryan Jenkins Chapter 9. Unintended Externalities of Highly Automated VehiclesJeffrey K. GurneyChapter 10. The Politics of Self- Driving Cars: Soft Ethics, Hard Law, Big Business, Social NormsUgo PagalloChapter 11. Autonomous Vehicles and Ethical Settings: Who Should Decide?Paul FormosaChapter 12. Algorithms of Life and Death: A Utilitarian Approach to the Ethics of Self- Driving CarsStephen BennettChapter 13. Autonomous Vehicles, Business Ethics, and Risk Distribution in Hybrid TrafficBrian BerkeyChapter 14. An Epistemic Approach to Cultivating Appropriate Trust in Autonomous VehiclesKendra ChilsonChapter 15. How Soon Is Now?: On the Timing and Conditions for Adopting Widespread Use of Autonomous VehiclesLeonard KahnChapter 16. The Ethics of Abuse and Unintended Consequences for Autonomous VehiclesKeith Abney PART III Perspectives from Political PhilosophyIntroduction by Tomá Hríbek Chapter 17. Distributive Justice, Institutionalism, and Autonomous VehiclesPatrick Taylor SmithChapter 18. Autonomous Vehicles and the Basic Structure of SocietyVeljko Dubljevic and William A. BauerChapter 19. Supply Chains, Work Alternatives, and Autonomous VehiclesLuke Golemon, Fritz Allhoff, and T. J. BroyChapter 20. Can Autonomous Cars Deliver Equity?Anne BrownChapter 21. Making Autonomous Vehicle Technologies Matter: Ensuring Equitable Access and OpportunityMadhu C. Dutta- Koehler and Jennifer Hatch Part IV Autonomous Vehicle Technology in The CityIntroduction by Tomá%s Hríbek Chapter 22. Fixing Congestion for Whom? The Distribution of Autonomous Vehicles' Effects on CongestionCarole Turley VoulgarisChapter 23. Fulfilling the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles with a New Ethics of TransportationBeaudry Kock and Yolanda LannquistChapter 24. Ethics, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future CityJason Borenstein, John Bucher, and Joseph HerkertChapter 25. The Autonomous Vehicle in Asian Cities: Opportunities for Gender Equity, Convivial Urban Relations, and Public Safety in Seoul and SingaporeJeffrey K. H. Chan and Jiwon ShimChapter 26. Autonomous Vehicles, the Driverless City, and the Pedestrian CityTomá%s Hríbek Appendix 1: Varieties of Trolley PessimismJeff Behrends and John Basl