HWcase 6 Q1
Apr. 23rd, 2025 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esabbsThe 2018 Uber Self Driving Fatality - https://www.wired.com/story/ubers-fatal-self-driving-car-crash-saga-over-operator-avoids-prison/
-Elaine Herzberg was pushing her bike across the street and was struck by a self driving car
-The vehicle was a modified Volvo XC90 SUV operated by Uber's autonomous vehicle program
-The vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human safety driver who was Rafaela Vasquez
-The vehicle actually detected the person 6 seconds before hand but failed to engage the braking system
-The driver was watching her phone at the time of the crash
-The driver, Rafaela Vasquez was charged with negligent homicide
-Uber reached a settlement with Herzberg's family after the crash
-Prosecutors did not file criminal charges against Uber specifically
-Who is mainly to be held accountable in this situation, the manufacturer, the driver, the system?
-Has this likely impacted the future with us having self driving vehicles?
-Should the company have been faced with heavier consequences for the system? Or were things right?
-Could there have been an ethical issue happening while the car system was facing the person crossing the street? The system making a crucial faulty decision based on its programming?
What does virtue ethics say about this case?
What does utilitarianism say about this case?
What does deontology say about this case?
-Elaine Herzberg was pushing her bike across the street and was struck by a self driving car
-The vehicle was a modified Volvo XC90 SUV operated by Uber's autonomous vehicle program
-The vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human safety driver who was Rafaela Vasquez
-The vehicle actually detected the person 6 seconds before hand but failed to engage the braking system
-The driver was watching her phone at the time of the crash
-The driver, Rafaela Vasquez was charged with negligent homicide
-Uber reached a settlement with Herzberg's family after the crash
-Prosecutors did not file criminal charges against Uber specifically
-Who is mainly to be held accountable in this situation, the manufacturer, the driver, the system?
-Has this likely impacted the future with us having self driving vehicles?
-Should the company have been faced with heavier consequences for the system? Or were things right?
-Could there have been an ethical issue happening while the car system was facing the person crossing the street? The system making a crucial faulty decision based on its programming?
What does virtue ethics say about this case?
What does utilitarianism say about this case?
What does deontology say about this case?
