"Do you sacrifice the driver to help passers-by?" How does the fully automatic driving car correspond to the moral dilemma that relates to human's lives?

ByTodd Dwyer

GoogleDemonstration run of fully automatic driving carTesla to EV (Electric Vehicle) 'Model S'Newly equipped automatic operation functionThe introduction of a fully automatic driving car, such as doing it, is approaching the future which is not far. Ethical issues that are likely to be a major barrier for fully automated driving cars are arguing as the market shows excitement towards the introduction of fully automatic driving cars.

[1510.03346] Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03346

Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill | MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/

In thinking experiments of ethics, we ask how we deal with moral dilemmasTrocot problemThere is what is called. The truck running on the track can not be stopped because it is uncontrollable, and if left untouched, five workers at the end of the railroad will die, but the railroad is branched and it is possible to change course. However, there is one worker on the other side, and if you change the course of the truck, the worker will be killed. Under this circumstance, a person who can manipulate the branch of the railway line will "help one person instead of five people dying without changing their course", "Change one's turn to help five people instead of one person" Choosing one from one option is a problem of the truck. In other words, simply say "Can I kill one person to help five people?"

ByKeppet

To make the greatest happiness to as many people as possible is said to be social good "Maximum number of individuals maximum happinessAs a sloganUtilitarianismIf it is based on, it is to take advantage of five people instead of killing one person, but it is also a fact that there are people who have doubts from a moral point of view, literally a moral dilemma .

The same thing can happen with regard to the driving of a car as a problem of a truck. For example, suppose that you have encountered a scene where a car you are driving is losing control, placing a friend and going into a group of children ahead as you go. If you drop the group of children and fall from the road and both the driver and the passenger are inevitable of death, the driver must have five lives or two lives, including yourself not.

When people are driving, various elements such as driver's moral and instantaneous judgment are intertwined complicatedly, but in case of automatic driving car, how to deal with the problem of the truck is programmed by algorithm It is a matter of discussion towards introduction of fully automatic driving car whether or not to deal with this.

ByBrook Ward

A research team headed by Dr. Jean-Francois Bonnefon psychology at Toulouse First College of Business in order to tackle the problem of this fully automatic driving car, "Although there is no answer to the problem of the truck, a fully automatic driving car was introduced and consumers In order to be widely recognized, the public opinion against the truck problem will play the most important role. " Survey is conducted by Amazon "ServiceAmazon Mechanical Turk"This is to have 700 employees working at the company work on issues including moral dilemmas of various conditions.

According to the findings, the idea that fully automatic driving cars should be programmed to minimize the victims was supported and utilitarian responses were obtained. However, according to Dr. Bonnefon, "While there were many ideas that fully automatic cars should be programmed to minimize victims, there was an opinion that they do not want to drive a fully automatic driving car themselves" I am talking about the investigation. In other words, it is good for someone to drive Utilitarianally programmed fully automated driving car, but I do not want to drive by myself.

According to the survey, although the result including the contradiction that "fully automatic car should be designed utilitarianism but I do not drive" was obtained, Dr. Bonnefon said "If the fully automatic driving car is a single motorcycle If it is programmed to collide with the wall avoiding collision, it will be necessary to consider which of the car and the motorcycle driver is more likely to survive, and it is also necessary for the child to I will emphasize that various factors need to be taken into consideration, depending on whether or not you are riding.

The result of this survey is the first step to decide how to deal with the truck problem of the fully automatic driving car and it is a very worrisome question on how we can proceed in the future.

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