Anticipation in Autonomous Vehicles: From a Microethical Perspectives
摘要
Our research goal is to identify the ethical elements that autonomous vehicles should possess to coexist harmoniously with other road users in a society where autonomous vehicles are prevalent. Although autonomous vehicles are driverless, ethical issues still exist. In particular, autonomous vehicles are a system in themselves, and at the same time, they are merely an object that interacts with other road users in a social system. In previous research, we have proposed a hierarchy of ethics: macroethics, mesoethics, and microethics. Of these, microethics is most relevant to the behavior of systems in society. In this paper, we examine ethics, particularly microethics, through documents related to the test scenario category for autonomous vehicles. As a result, not only is it necessary for a system to be able to make appropriate predictions, but it also needs to have the function of anticipation before it can make those predictions.