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Two - Moral Judgment – How We Tell Right from Wrong

from Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2021

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In 2015, an online video went viral showing a self-parking car plow into a group of on-lookers. The car, a Volvo XC60, was not malfunctioning. Instead, the driver mistakenly believed that the car was equipped to detect pedestrians. But, as it turned out, the pedestrian-detection feature is not standard for this self-parking car. It is an add-on, a “luxury upgrade” that had not been purchased by the owner. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.

In light of reported accidents like this (including one in which a pedestrian was killed), regulators and technophiles have begun asking, Are We Programming Killer Cars? While it seems straightforward that self-driving cars should be designed to avoid killing people and animals, it is far from straightforward how this would be done.

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Good Thinking
Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think
, pp. 19 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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