Test-Driving the Future

doi:10.5771/9781786613240

Test-Driving the Future

Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change

Published 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781786613240
ISBN print: 978-1-78661-323-3
ISBN online: 978-1-78661-324-0
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

As the development of autonomous vehicles proceeds full-speed ahead, it is often said that this new, disruptive form of transportation will change everything. Such a claim has drawn both philosophical and public attention to what could be called ethical emergencies: imaginary situations ranging from life-or-death trolley-problem conundrums to large-scale cyber-attacks on mobility networks. This perspective puts other important, but less dramatic, ethical dilemmas connected with driverless vehicles at risk of being underexplored or simply 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

Schlagworte

anticipatory ethics applied ethics smart cars philosophy of technology technological change ethics

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Preface
1–14 Chapter 1 Test-Driving the Future 1–14
15–28 Chapter 2 A Postphenomenology of Electric, Self-Driving, and Shared Vehicles 15–28
29–42 Chapter 3 The Ethics of Crossing the Street 29–42
43–58 Chapter 4 Who Is Responsible If the Car Itself Is Driving? 43–58
59–76 Chapter 5 The Ethics of Transitioning Toward a Driverless Future 59–76
77–96 Chapter 6 Stop Saying That Autonomous Cars Will Eliminate Driver Distraction 77–96
97–108 Chapter 7 Automated Vehicles and Environmental Justice 97–108
109–130 Chapter 8 Vehicles of Change 109–130
131–150 Chapter 9 Planes, Trains, and Flying Taxis 131–150
151–166 Chapter 10 Experiencing the Future 151–166
167–172 Index 167–172
173–176 About the Contributors 173–176

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