Self-Driving Vehicles. A Perspective on Ethics

Abstract

At the time of writing this paper there are already some implementations of autonomous vehicles. This paper approaches this subject from a different perspective by defining what automation means in other areas of transportation as well as ethical problems regarding the operation of this kind of vehicle. In the later part although of equal importance discuss the operation of the autonomous vehicle from a security and data privacy point of view. This paper tries to define autonomous vehicles by comparison with other ways of transportation which have a higher degree of automation and defines what autonomous vehicles might impact our lives and our privacy.