Autonomous Vehicles

Group Members: Irtiza Naeem Noor Tashfain Yousuf

Class: BEE 8 B

Department of Electrical Engineering

Bahria University Islamabad

Ethical Issues

Background• Cars Intelligent enough to take you places.• Autonomous cars came to market in

1980's.• Uses Computer Vision to avoid obstacles

with the help of 3D imaging.

Autonomous Vehicles Technology

Pros• Usefull for disabled persons.• Negligible human error.• Theft proof.• 7%* reduction in crashes.• Human friendly and Law abiding.

* www.iihs.com/roadsafety

Cons• Expensive.• Poor performance in adverse weather

conditions.• Vehicle to vehicle technology cannot

function ideally without adoption across the board.

• Suicide.• No accountability.

Ethical scenario

1. https://medium.com/@tanayj/self-driving-cars-and-the-trolley-problem2. http://www.businessinsider.sg/the-ethical-questions-facing-self- driving-cars-2015-10

• Should the autonomous cars be programmed to sacrifice the passenger or someone else!

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Conclusion• Driver of an ordinnary car and programer

of self driving car both are humans.• There should be an override option.• Leave the works of nature to God.• Robots drive better than Man.

Q & A