Killing by Autonomous Vehicles and the Legal Doctrine of Necessity

How should autonomous vehicles (aka self-driving cars) be programmed to behave in the event of an unavoidable accident in which the only choice open is one between causing different damages or losses to different objects or persons? This paper addresses this ethical question starting from the normat...

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Main Author: Santoni de Sio, Filippo (Author)
Contributors: Keeling, Geoff (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2017]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 411-429
RelBib Classification:NCA Ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
VA Philosophy
XA Law
Further subjects:B Robot ethics
B Ethics of self-driving cars
B Trolley Problem
B Ethics of autonomous vehicles
B Legal doctrine of necessity
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