Ethical Theories behind Self-driving Cars

Recent incident - Uber halts self-driving car tests after death A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed as she crossed the street in Tempe, Arizona. It's the first fatality caused by an autonomous car and could deal a big blow to the burgeoning industry. Read: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43459156 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmD9HmDQDII&feature=youtu.be What is a self-driving car? Self-driving car is an autonomous or “driverless” car, it combine sensors and software to control, navigate, and drive the vehicle. In here human drivers do not involve to take control the vehicle. Since researchers have been divided car into different layers considering autonomous situation of cars. In level 0, 1, 2 gives for normal manual cars. They consider level 3 for the car can manage all safety-critical functions under certain conditions, but the driver is expected to take over when alerted. Level 4 to the car is fully-autonomous in some driving scen...