Vehicle automation and the duty to ACT

21st World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, ITSWC 2014: Reinventing Transportation in Our Connected World

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Goodall, Noah J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Autonomous; Driverless; Duty to act; Ethics; Morals; Self driving car; Self protection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS; DRIVERLESS; DUTY TO ACT; ETHICS; MORALS; SELF DRIVINGS; SELF PROTECTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84929224654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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