Moral Decision-Making in Autonomous Vehicles

Discussing the Ethical dilemmas created by self-driving cars in critical situations.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have long sparked debate around the ethics of transferred decision-making autonomy on roads. Within this terminology though, sits different levels of autonomy.

The Society of Automotive Engineers sets out 6 Levels of autonomy used officially across the industry to differentiate AV capability [1]. Levels 0–2 AV already exist in commercial markets. Level 3 is the first significant jump in capability. It describes vehicles which can self-drive …

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