Connected and Automated Vehicles: Integrating Engineering and Ethics

<p>This book reports on theoretical and practical analyses of the ethical challenges connected to driving automation. It also aims at discussing issues that have arisen from the European Commission 2020 report ���Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles. Recommendations on Road Safety Privacy Fairness Explainability and Responsibility���. Gathering contributions by philosophers social scientists mechanical engineers and UI designers the book discusses key ethical concerns relating to responsibility and personal autonomy privacy safety and cybersecurity as well as explainability and human-machine interaction. On the one hand it examines these issues from a theoretical normative point of view. On the other hand it proposes practical strategies to face the most urgent ethical problems showing how the integration of ethics and technology can be achieved through design practices. All in all this book fosters a multidisciplinary approach where philosophy ethics and engineering are integrated rather than just juxtaposed. It is meant to inform and inspire an audience of philosophers of technology ethicists engineers developers manufacturers and regulators among other interested readers.<br></p><p></p>