Ethics Setting for Autonomous Vehicles.

This chapter explores the underlying arguments for and against designing ethics settings into autonomous vehicles. It begins by offering a definition of "ethics setting" and discussing how designers and engineers embed ethics settings in technology.

It then provides an overview of the ethics settings currently embedded in vehicles and those proposed or foreseeable in emerging autonomous vehicle technology, while discussing the various ethical considerations that have been raised in response to each kind of ethics setting.

After describing the landscape of ethics settings and related ethical issues, the chapter raises three questions that must be answered by those designing ethics settings into autonomous vehicles, and concludes by providing considerations to help engineers, designers, and policymakers answer them in practice.

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