Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be on our roads soon. These cars will be designed so that passengers cannot take manual control in the event of a collision. These cars might encounter situations where a decision about how to allocate harm between different persons is required (Goodall, 2014; Lin, 2016). Consider, The Moral Design Problem: How should manufacturers programme AVs to allocate harm in these collisions? In a recent article, Sütfeld et al. (2017) argue that (1) human moral judgements are context dependent; such that (2) we have good reason to programme AVs to allocate harm in collisions in accordance with context-sensitive human moral judgements. Given (1) and (2), Sütfeld et al. conducted an empirical study in which participants were presented with virtual reality collisions, and data was collected on the participants' responses to these collisions. In this paper, I raise two objections to Sütfeld et al.'s approach to the moral design problem...
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LA - en SN - 1662-5153 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00247 ID - ref1 ER -