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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2018.17.6.224

An Analysis of Accident Costs according to Ethical Choice of Autonomous Vehicles  

Jung, Seung weon (Hongik Univ. Research Institute of Science and Technology)
Hwang, Kee Yeon (Hongik Univ.)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.17, no.6, 2018 , pp. 224-239 More about this Journal
Abstract
Autonomous vehicles can significantly reduce accidents due to 'driver's carelessness', which occupies the majority of causes for traffic accidents, but they may fail to avoid traffic accidents due to unexpected situations, such as "trolley dilemma", vehicle defects and road defects. Therefore in situations Autonomous vehicles need to be made ethical choices. This study assumes that Autonomous vehicles can not avoid traffic accidents due to unexpected sink holes. In this situation, the traffic accident costs was analyzed for the ethical choices of Autonomous vehicles. In the process, Autonomous vehicles were made to choose one of three ethical choices : (1) Egoism with priority on passenger safety, (2) Deontology for minimizing human damages, (3) Utilitarianism with minimizing traffic accident costs. As a result of the analysis, egoism had the highest traffic accident costs, and deontology for minimizing human damages had the lowest traffic accident costs.
Keywords
Ethics of Autonomous Vehicle; Trolley Dilemma; Traffic Accident Cost;
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