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Implementable Ethics for Autonomous Vehicles

Implementable Ethics for Autonomous Vehicles

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As agents moving through an environment that includes a range of other road users – from pedestrians and cyclists to other human or automated drivers – automated vehicles continuously interact with the humans around them. The nature of these interactions is a result of the programming in the vehicle and the priorities placed there by the programmers. Just as human drivers display a range of driving styles and preferences, automated vehicles represent a broad canvas on which the designers can craft the response to different driving scenarios.

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  1. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, Stanford University, USA

    J. Christian Gerdes

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

    Sarah M. Thornton

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  1. TU Braunschweig, Institut für Regelungstechnik, Deutschland

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  3. DLR Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland

    Barbara Lenz

  4. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Deutschland

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Gerdes, J., Thornton, S. (2015). Implementable Ethics for Autonomous Vehicles. In: Maurer, M., Gerdes, J., Lenz, B., Winner, H. (eds) Autonomes Fahren. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45854-9_5

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