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Operationalizing the Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Engineering Perspective

Operationalizing the Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Engineering Perspective

Fabio Fossa, Stefano Arrigoni, Giandomenico Caruso, Hafeez Husain Cholakkal, Pragyan Dahal, Matteo Matteucci, Federico Cheli
Copyright: © 2022 |Volume: 13 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1947-3451|EISSN: 1947-346X|EISBN13: 9781683181675|DOI: 10.4018/IJT.291553
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Fossa, Fabio, et al. "Operationalizing the Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Engineering Perspective." IJT vol.13, no.1 2022: pp.1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.291553

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Fossa, F., Arrigoni, S., Caruso, G., Cholakkal, H. H., Dahal, P., Matteucci, M., & Cheli, F. (2022). Operationalizing the Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Engineering Perspective. International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 13(1), 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.291553

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Fossa, Fabio, et al. "Operationalizing the Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Engineering Perspective," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 13, no.1: 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.291553

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Abstract

In response to the many social impacts of automated mobility, in September 2020 the European Commission published Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles, a report in which recommendations on road safety, privacy, fairness, explainability, and responsibility are drawn from a set of eight overarching principles. This paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary research where philosophers and engineers joined efforts to operationalize the guidelines advanced in the report. To this aim, we endorse a function-based working approach to support the implementation of values and recommendations into the design of automated vehicle technologies. Based on this, we develop methodological tools to tackle issues related to personal autonomy, explainability, and privacy as domains that most urgently require fine-grained guidance due to the associated ethical risks. Even though each tool still requires further inquiry, we believe that our work might already prove the productivity of the function-based approach and foster its adoption in the CAV scientific community.

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