Automatic Driving Ethics

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(Addressing the ethical problem stopping the auto-driving car from marketization)
Safe driving has always been a social problem. People always have the chance to encounter accidents in their lives. For those worried about these problems, they put forward the concept of driving a car computer. In the past ten years, people have been striving to achieve this goal. More and more people are paying attention to the topic of automatic driving. It has also triggered many discussions about different aspects of automatic driving. Nowadays, technology is considered to be the main factor to prevent the popularity of automatic driving. This also leads to the problems behind the trend. Is it a technical problem that prevents …show more content…

It is clear that this is a more stable and gradual path. While some "barbarians" directly choose unmanned as a starting point, to prove safety in 2020. They think the first two kinds of autopilot are dangerous, because when the machine fails, the driver may not be able to get into the state immediately and make a sober decision in the light of the crisis. So the ultimate way is to "kill" the driver. Such cars are designed for travelers. Children, old people, pets and disabled people can drive, and the right to travel is greatly released.While at the same time there is also some problem generated by these two …show more content…

If you don't pull the switch, the train will go the same way to kill five people; if you pull the switch fork, the train will go off and kill the person. Are you going to pull or not? This is the core of the traditional moral philosophy: the septum of utilitarianism and absolutism. What utilitarianism think is, of course, the death of one person than the death of five people; absolute said: you switch fork action is to kill a person would be dead, so is no better than the other! We can noticed that these arguments have been going on for generations and there are many different versions of tram problems. Until today, in this era of automatic driving, people will still ask similar questions. But my question here is: is an absolute, abstract moral problem applicable to specific situational analysis? Or in other way, does the traditional moral philosophy apply to our judgment of specific problems? These questions has no direct connection to my overall topic but this does let me know that the ethical problem that we used to have should not be a

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