ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF SELF-

DRIVING CARS

Luis Mercado
Oliver Martinez
 MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE

• Is a car capable to decide whether to run over a group of

schoolchildren or plunge off a cliff, killing its own
occupants?
 A CAR CAN´T DECIDE
BETWEEN THE LIVES OF ITS
PASSENGERS AND THE
LIVES OF PEDESTRIANS.
 • These questions are extremely difficult to
answer because of uncertainties about the
WHY?
consequences – such as who will be
affected and to what degree.
 P E OP L E AR E G OOD AT
PE R CE PT ION AND
ME C H ANI C A L TA SK S

• Self-driving cars shouldn’t drive

like people.
• Because evolution built these
skills for us. That, however, makes
these skills hard to teach or
engineer.
 ACCIDENTS

• The company just revealed

that its Autopilot feature
was turned on when a
Model X SUV slammed into
a concrete highway lane
divider and burst into flames
 GIVEN THAT SELF - • Why should the cars be subject to rules
DRIVING C ARS ARE
BETTER THAN HUMAN that were designed for human fallibility
DRIVERS and human errors?
 IS SOCIETY READY FOR THIS?

• People aren`t ready for this kind of problems and artificial

intelligence isn`t ready for being in the streets