{"id":447,"date":"2019-03-18T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/big10-friends-paper-workshop-2019\/?page_id=447"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:05:02","slug":"robert-hughes-wharton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/big10-friends-paper-workshop-2019\/robert-hughes-wharton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobey Scharding, Rutgers University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recognize Everyone\u2019s Interests:\u00a0Corporate Ethics, Driverless Cars and the New Trolley Problem\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I defend a proportional risk solution to an ethical dilemma about driverless cars. The dilemma relates to survey participants\u2019 (1) belief that driverless cars should kill fewer people in unavoidable crashes in which cars face a choice about whom to kill or spare but (2) attitude that they would not buy a car that would kill them in order to spare a larger number of people (Bonnefon, et al., 2016). According to my argument, this dilemma derives from a shortcoming in the classic formulation of the trolley problem: the trolley problem assumes, without proving, that it is ethical to kill one person in order to spare a larger number of people (Thomson, 1985). I seek to establish the opposite claim. I call this endeavor\u2014how to prove that it is unethical to kill one in order to spare five\u2014the \u201cnew\u201d trolley problem. The recognize-everyone&#8217;s-interests\u00a0approach addresses it by requiring decision makers to recognize the interests of all people affected in unavoidable-crash scenarios: dividing the risk of harm among everyone exposed to that risk. Automatically killing one in order to spare five is unethical, then, because it ignores the interests of the single person. Under the recognize-everyone&#8217;s-interest approach, vehicles will probably (but not automatically) kill fewer people. This approach thus solves the new trolley problem while satisfying both prongs of the dilemma about driverless cars. I conclude by discussing legal and liability issues in implementing the proportional risk approach in driverless cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/big10-friends-paper-workshop-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/126\/2019\/04\/Scharding-Trolley-draft-Big-Ten-and-Friends.docx\">Scharding, Trolley draft &#8211; Big Ten and Friends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize Everyone\u2019s Interests:\u00a0Corporate Ethics, Driverless Cars and the New Trolley Problem\u00a0 I defend a proportional risk solution to an ethical dilemma about driverless cars. 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