Test-Driving the Future: Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change

The development of autonomous vehicles raises ethical emergencies and other important ethical dilemmas, such as how they affect pedestrians and inspire social justice. This volume explores these issues, including the need for policy makers to look at the softer impacts of driverless cars. Contributors include philosophers, engineering designers, regulators, and urban planners.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 186 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The development of autonomous vehicles has sparked both philosophical and public attention to ethical emergencies, such as life-or-death trolley-problem conundrums and large-scale cyber-attacks on mobility networks. This perspective has put other important ethical dilemmas connected with driverless vehicles at risk of being underexplored or ignored. The primary focus of the original essays collected together in this volume shifts to considering these issues, ones arising out of more everyday human-autonomous vehicle relations and encounters. Topics investigated range from how driverless vehicles ethically affect what it is to be a pedestrian to how they could inspire more opportunities for social justice, along with a consideration of the need for policy makers to look at the softer impacts of driverless cars. Overall, this volume contributes to defining a new area of exploration connected to the ethics of driverless vehicles, one that should appeal not only to philosophers of technology but to engineering designers, regulators, and urban planners as well. Contributors: Jason Borenstein, Jeremy Carp, Shane Epting, Sven Ove Hansson, Joseph Herkert, Ike Kamphof, Robert Kirkman, Diane Michelfelder, Keith Miller, Sven Nyholm, Robert Rosenberger, Patrick Schmidt, Tsjalling Swierstra, and Galit Wellner

Weight: 296g
Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538173619