Driverless Car Ethical Dilemmas

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One ethical issue of driverless cars the choice of action when facing an inevitable accident with another party. In this situation, the car has to decide which party to harm. This means the people developing the car software may face the issue of deciding different values or worth on human lives or leaving it to the machine learning software to decide itself. Another issue is whether driverless cars should fully prevent human interaction or still allow humans to control the car if and when they see fit. This may raise the question of whether human error or software error was the cause of any accidents. There is a conceptual muddle in the context of driverless cars. At first, driverless cars seems like a simple autonomous extension of regular

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