Who Should Bear the Risk When Self‐Driving Vehicles Crash?
The moral importance of liability to harm has so far been ignored in the lively debate about what self‐driving vehicles should be programmed to do when an accident is inevitable. But as discussions in the context of self‐defense have highlighted, liability matters a great deal to just distribution o...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 630 - 646 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2021
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