Problem with the Trolley Problem - Teaching Ideas

• Friedman, Batya (ed). (1997) Human values and the design of computer technology. Cambridge University Press.
• Friedman, Batya and Hendry, David. 2019 Value Sensitive Design: shaping technology with moral imagination. MIT Press.
• On the Steppe, the Value Sensitive Design Lab podcast
• Values, from Ethics Unwrapped, The University of Texas at Austin
• Weston, Anthony. 2017. A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox (Chapter 4), Oxford University Press.

Conversations about ethics in relation to autonomous vehicles often position the value of “safety” in opposition to “freedom.” (See the 40 minute mark of the webinar)

The following are some resources you might consider if you would like to develop or facilitate a classroom discussion or lecture around this tension.

• Doing vs. Allowing Harm, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Ethics of Technological Risk
• Freedom vs Security: Freedom at any cost? [2 minute video]
• Hansson, S. (2013) The Ethics of Risk: Ethical Analysis in an Uncertain World. Palgrave.
• Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (E03659). 2020  Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles Recommendations on road safety, privacy, fairness, explainability and responsibility. Publication Office of the European Union: Luxembourg.
• Precautionary Principles, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Risk, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

n the webinar (around the 42 minute mark) the speakers mention that different countries approach autonomous vehicles differently in part because of choices relating to individuality vs. community or the common good. How do values differ globally? What do we mean by the term the common good?

• 2020 Global Automotive Consumer Study: is consumer interest in advanced automotive technologies on the move?, Deloitte.
• 2018 Autonomous Vehicles Readiness Index: assessing countries' openness and preparedness for autonomous vehicles, KPMG International.
• Kyriakidis, Miltos, Riender Happee, and Joost C.F. de Winter. 2015 Public opinion on automated driving: Results of an international questionnaire among 5000 respondents. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour 32, 127-140.
• OECD Better Life Index, Community
  This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.
• The Common Good, Annenberg Classroom
• The Common Good, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• World Values Survey
  The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project's goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies.