Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars - How to Regulate Them and Why Your Opinion Matters

This book prepares readers to take an informed stance on the difficult moral dilemmas involving self-driving cars. It will convince them that the ethical and legal challenges posed by self-driving cars are real, novel, and unavoidable-and that they require a solution.

List of contents

Prologue 1. The Possibility and Necessity of Regulation: Preparing Ourselves for Urgent Moral Dilemmas 2. How to Regulate Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars 3. Why Your Opinion Is Relevant for the Law and for Ethics 4. Our Tips for Policy Makers

About the author

Norbert Paulo is DFG Heisenberg Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He obtained his PhD at the University of Hamburg. His PhD dissertation has been published as The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics (2016).
Lando Kirchmair is Deputy Professor for National and International Public Law with a Focus on the Protection of Cultural Heritage at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. His habilitation thesis--Rethinking the Relationship between International, EU and National Law: Consent-Based Monism--was published in 2024.

Summary

This book prepares readers to take an informed stance on the difficult moral dilemmas involving self-driving cars. It will convince them that the ethical and legal challenges posed by self-driving cars are real, novel, and unavoidable—and that they require a solution.

Product details

• Authors: Lando Kirchmair, Norbert Paulo, Norbert (University of Salzburg Paulo, Paulo Norbert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032778822
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277882-2
• No. of pages: 90
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