TY - JOUR
T1 - A Safety-Case Approach to the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles
AU - Menon, Catherine
AU - Alexander, Robert
N1 - © 2019 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis at https://doi.org/10.1080/09617353.2019.1697918
PY - 2019/12/13
Y1 - 2019/12/13
N2 - Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have significant ethical and safety implications. Questions of informed consent and risk acceptance are of primary importance, as is an explicit identification of the ethical principles underlying these decisions. In this paper we present a process framework for producing an ethics assurance case, which can be used to translate ethical imperatives into design decisions and safety management practices. The process and resultant assurance case integrate ethical considerations into the wider engineering lifecycle, providing a tool to demonstrate that design and safety management decisions reflect an identified ethical position.
AB - Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have significant ethical and safety implications. Questions of informed consent and risk acceptance are of primary importance, as is an explicit identification of the ethical principles underlying these decisions. In this paper we present a process framework for producing an ethics assurance case, which can be used to translate ethical imperatives into design decisions and safety management practices. The process and resultant assurance case integrate ethical considerations into the wider engineering lifecycle, providing a tool to demonstrate that design and safety management decisions reflect an identified ethical position.
U2 - 10.1080/09617353.2019.1697918
DO - 10.1080/09617353.2019.1697918
M3 - Article
VL - 39
SP - 33
EP - 58
JO - Journal of the Safety and Reliability Society
JF - Journal of the Safety and Reliability Society
IS - 1
ER -