[Informatics] Ethical dilemmas - who is responsible for the first death caused by a self-driving vehicle?

[ken price]

1,209 Australians died in motor vehicle accidents with human drivers last
year alone.

I'd suggest it won't be too long before human drivers will be the unsafe
option, and to continue allowing human-driven cars would become ethically
questionable.

kp

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hello.
> Basically, I think that in a ideal world we would find it nice to hand
> over most of our daily tasks to technology. But driving I think should not
> be one. It's dangerous and not necessary. Someone had died as a result. Not
> good enough. How sad and pointless. Who's to blame? That's a tough one.
> :-(
>
> ---
>
> On Saturday, 2 July 2016, <timmer at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> Apart from ethical concerns there is also a story in this about how
>> fundamental design decisions can have a big influence on the final product.
>> The nytimes article finishes with a paragraph indicating that the Tesla's
>> self-drive is a 'driver assist' approach.
>>
>> In this TED talk,
>> https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road?language=en
>> Urmson explains why Google abandoned that approach and have aimed for
>> complete self-drive; ie assumes there is no driver (in a nut shell, drivers
>> treat drive-assist as self-drive and stop paying attention to what is going
>> on around them - danger, Will Robinson!)
>> It will be interesting to see how this technology goes.
>> (maybe I'm taking this a bit far, but it is also an interesting
>> evaluation question: how do you decide in 10 years time which is the safer
>> technology: driver only, driver-assist, or self-drive?)
>>
>> Regards
>> Robert T-A
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:
>> "Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List" <
>> informatics at edulists.com.au>
>>
>> To:
>> "Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List" <
>> informatics at edulists.com.au>
>> Cc:
>>
>> Sent:
>> Fri, 1 Jul 2016 19:01:07 +1000
>> Subject:
>> Re: [Informatics] Ethical dilemmas - who is responsible for the first
>> death caused by a self-driving vehicle?
>>
>>
>> It appears that the driver has been identified as Tesla proponent Joshua
>> Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/self-driving-tesla-fatal-crash-investigation.html?_r=0
>>
>>
>> Oddly this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E shows a
>> Tesla autopilot saving its owners life in April this year.
>> The video was uploaded by ... Tesla owner Joshua Brown of Ohio.
>>
>> kp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It was bound to happen eventually...
>>>
>>> "A TESLA MODEL S driver using the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot
>>> feature died when the car hit an 18-wheeler, the first known fatality
>>> involving technology that remains in beta testing."
>>>
>>> Read more...
>>>
>>> https://www.wired.com/2016/06/teslas-autopilot-first-deadly-crash/
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mark Kelly
>>>
>>> mark at vceit.com
>>> http://vceit.com
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe
>>> VCE Informatics Mailing List kindly supported by
>>> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/infotech/itapplications3-4.html
>>> - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority <br>
>>> http://www.vitta.org.au  - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
>>> Teachers Association Inc <br>
>>> http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ict/schools - Swinburne University
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Dr Ken Price MACS(Snr) CP ACCE Professional Associate.
>> Immediate Past President, TASITE http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sent from Gmail Mobile
>
> IMPORTANT! This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received
> in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Mount St Joseph Girls'
> College does not represent or warrant that the attached files are free from
> computer viruses or other defects. The attached files are provided, and may
> only be used, on the basis that the user assumes all responsibility for any
> loss, damage or consequence resulting directly or indirectly from the use
> of the attached files, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or
> not. The liability of Mount St Joseph Girls' College is limited in any
> event to either the resupply of the attached files or the cost of having
> the attached files resupplied. Any representations or opinions expressed in
> this email are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of
> Mount St Joseph Girls' College.
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe
> VCE Informatics Mailing List kindly supported by
> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/infotech/itapplications3-4.html -
> Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority <br>
> http://www.vitta.org.au  - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
> Teachers Association Inc <br>
> http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ict/schools - Swinburne University
>



-- 
-- 
Dr Ken Price MACS(Snr) CP ACCE Professional Associate.
Immediate Past President, TASITE http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/informatics/attachments/20160702/9e0431f6/attachment-0001.html