Ethical Considerations for Vehicle Automation Systems J. Christian Gerdes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Aeronautics and Astronautics Director, Revs Program at Stanford and Center for Automotive Research at Stanford

What should the car do?

Workshop at Stanford University, June Professor Patrick Lin Philosophy California Polytechnic University

Ethics is a process, not a module Are we programming ethical decisions or ethically programming? Professor Shannon Vallor Philosophy Santa Clara University Professor John Sullins Philosophy Sonoma State University

SAFETY MOBILITY LEGALITY

6 Break the law? Wait all day?

7 Obey the speed limit? Even when merging?

1 st Person versus 3 rd Person Ethics Professor Debra Satz Philosophy Stanford University Professor Erin MacDonald Mechanical Engineering Stanford University

9 Traffic is a social dance

Lessons from other disciplines Professor Mykel Kochenderfer Aeronautics and Astronautics Stanford University Dr. Noah Goodall Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research

Philosophers and Engineers Working Together!  Map philosophical concepts to programming constructs – Deontological ethics to constraints – Consequentialism to cost functions  Can balance objectives using a model predictive control framework – But what weights do we use?  Moral laws modeled analogously to physical laws – A parallel suggested by Immanuel Kant

Where Can I Find More? Chapters by conference alumni including: Eva Fraedrich Thomas Gasser Chris Gerdes Barbara Lenz Patrick Lin Bryant Walker Smith Stephen Wu Just Search ‘Springer Autonomes Fahren’ Free through Open Access! About 25% in English, full translation coming

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