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Question 1

“Whatever we might want to say about the different aspects of agency that self-driving cars and other current robots may or may not be able to exemplify, the most important things to investigate, I suggest, are as follows:”

Answer 1

(a) the roles people have in relation to these machines;
(b) the rights they enjoy in relation to them; and
(c) the ways in which they exercise not only direct but also indirect control over them.

Investigating these things will help us to close some of the responsibility gaps and retribution gaps that many authors worry about

Question 2

conclusion

Answer 2

That we face these sorts of choices illustrates that the ethics of automated driving is not only about how self- driving cars should crash or about who should be held responsible for crashes. The more general issue of risk management in choosing the driving styles of self-driving cars and otherwise optimizing their driving also raises significant ethical issues.