Car Ethical Dilemmas

Artificial intelligence is becoming more prominent in the world. Technology is advancing toward completely autonomous vehicles. However, these technological innovations come with great responsibility. A completely autonomous car can be driven into a situation where a life will have to be taken. This ethical issue is a problem for the engineers, the drivers of the car and society. A variable ethical setting in a car provides controversy over what the ethical setting should be and who should be responsible for the actions that the car will take. If the car was set to take the least amount of human life possible, it may lead to the death of the driver. The same machine the driver purchased for a safe passage, will end up taking their life to save two lives. This also raises the question of who is responsible for the death. One could blame the engineer who programmed the computer or the driver of the car. Who is at fault is undistinguishable.
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Forty-four percent of the people surveyed thought they would want to control the ethical standards that should be coded into the car. The car manufacturer should set the customers standard and let liability stand with the customer. Upon purchase of the car, the customer has to realize that the car has potential to take lives given the right situation. This can be said for every car on the road. The only difference is that the car was set to make the decision how the customer wanted it. Another view of this problem that this article does not represent, is the human factor played into the situation. Many drivers put in the situation to take lives will pull the steering wheel away from the people and try to steer the car in another direction. However, if the driver is too slow to turn the wheel, the car could cause even more damage than the completely autonomous car. Human error could cause an accident to be more