Test-Driving the Future

Diane Michelfelder

doi:10.5771/9781786613240

Summary

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

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-323-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-324-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1 Test-Driving the Future No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 2 A Postphenomenology of Electric, Self-Driving, and Shared Vehicles No access Pages 15 - 28
Chapter 3 The Ethics of Crossing the Street No access Pages 29 - 42
Chapter 4 Who Is Responsible If the Car Itself Is Driving? No access Pages 43 - 58
Chapter 5 The Ethics of Transitioning Toward a Driverless Future No access Pages 59 - 76
Chapter 6 Stop Saying That Autonomous Cars Will Eliminate Driver Distraction No access Pages 77 - 96
Chapter 7 Automated Vehicles and Environmental Justice No access Pages 97 - 108
Chapter 8 Vehicles of Change No access Pages 109 - 130
Chapter 9 Planes, Trains, and Flying Taxis No access Pages 131 - 150
Chapter 10 Experiencing the Future No access Pages 151 - 166
Index No access Pages 167 - 172
About the Contributors No access Pages 173 - 176