The Car That Knew Too Much
Can a Machine Be Moral?
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- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2022
Summary
The inside story of the groundbreaking experiment that captured what people think about the life-and-death dilemmas posed by driverless cars.
Human drivers don’t find themselves facing such moral dilemmas as “should I sacrifice myself by driving off a cliff if that could save the life of a little girl on the road?” Human brains aren’t fast enough to make that kind of calculation; the car is over the cliff in a nanosecond. A self-driving car, on the other hand, can compute fast enough …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262045797 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262045796 |
| Author: | Jean-Francois Bonnefon |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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Critics Review
“An enlightening analysis of the moral and ethical problems surrounding autonomous cars … Bonnefon considers such complicated questions with tact and curiosity, and his own research is fascinating, as with a site that he built called The Moral Machine that provides interactive accident scenarios. This is a thoughtful and provocative look at a timely concern.” – Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Jean-Francois Bonnefon
Jean-François Bonnefon is Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and President of a European Commission expert group that advises on the ethics of driverless mobility.
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