Development of socially sustainable traffic-control principles for self-driving vehicles: The ethics of anthropocentric design

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Science, Technology and Engineering, ETHICS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mladenović, Miloš N ^a   Abbas, Montasir ^a   McPherson, Tristram ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperative production; human rights; sustainability; technology; transportation

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLES;

COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; CONTROL PRINCIPLE; CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES; HUMAN RIGHTS; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SOCIAL IMPLICATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84929240233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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