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    Chapter 15 The Use and Abuse of Moral Preferences in the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars

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    Paulo, Norbert
    Möck, Leonie Alina
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    English
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    Abstract
    In this contribution, it is argued for the potential of empirical moral philosophy in the context of the regulation of self-driving cars. This chapter focuses on the use and abuse of capturing the moral preferences of the general public and including these in the regulatory process. The Moral Machine Experiment is used as an example of collecting evidence on public moral preferences to help program self-driving vehicles. After a comprehensive presentation of the aim and methodology of the study, criticisms are discussed and partly refuted.  It is concluded that the findings of the Moral Machine experiment are an impressive collection of data that has indeed contributed to the ethical and legal debate of how to regulate moral dilemmas caused by self-driving cars. Future empirical research in the field can continue along these lines. While the methodological limits of the Moral Machine experiment have to be acknowledged, it is nevertheless important to consider public moral preferences in the ethics of self-driving cars.
    Book
    Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64050
    Keywords
    applied ethics, behavioral ethics, criminal responsibility ethics, experimental bioethics, experimental jurisprudence, experimental moral philosophy, experimental philosophy, feminist X-Phi, folk moral judgments, intuitions, metaethics, moral methodology, reflective equilibrium, self-driving cars, utilitarianism
    DOI
    10.4324/9781003301424-18
    ISBN
    9781032293905, 9781032293912, 9781003301424
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    2024
    Imprint
    Routledge
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    Ethics and moral philosophy
    Pages
    21
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    Funder name: Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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