Public Health, Ethics, and Autonomous Vehicles.

With the potential to save nearly 30 000 lives per year in the United States, autonomous vehicles portend the most significant advance in auto safety history by shifting the focus from minimization of postcrash injury to collision prevention. I have delineated the important public health implication...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	American Journal of Public Health Vol. 107; no. 4; pp. 632 - 638
Main Author:	Fleetwood, Janet
Format:	Article
Published:	American Public Health Association Apr2017
Subjects:	United States Public health & society Public health Ethics History Ethical decision making Responsibility Technology Government regulation Autonomous vehicles Automobile safety Driverless cars Traffic fatalities Automotive engineering Traffic safety Human error Prevention Product design Algorithms Automation Automobile driving Automobiles Safety
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