Driverless cars: ethics or politics?

What is it about?

How should automated vehicles react in emergency circumstances? Most research projects and scientific literature deal with this question from a moral perspective. Some critics have pointed out some shortcomings of this strategy and have urged to focus on mundane traffic situations. We argue that many of the interesting questions about how AVs should behave, both in emergency and other situations, are of political, and not moral, nature.

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Why is it important?

We show that this proposed perspective has significant consequences for the design, management, and regulation of transport systems.