Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis.
The impacts of autonomous vehicles (AV) are widely anticipated to be socially, economically, and ethically significant. A reliable assessment of the harms and benefits of their large-scale deployment requires a multi-disciplinary approach. To that end, we employed Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to...
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| author | Veljko Dubljevic George List Jovan Milojevich Nirav Ajmeri William A Bauer Munindar P Singh Eleni Bardaka Thomas A Birkland Charles H W Edwards Roger C Mayer Ioan Muntean Thomas M Powers Hesham A Rakha Vance A Ricks M Shoaib Samandar |
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| description | The impacts of autonomous vehicles (AV) are widely anticipated to be socially, economically, and ethically significant. A reliable assessment of the harms and benefits of their large-scale deployment requires a multi-disciplinary approach. To that end, we employed Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to make such an assessment. We obtained opinions from 19 disciplinary experts to assess the significance of 13 potential harms and eight potential benefits that might arise under four deployments schemes. Specifically, we considered: (1) the status quo, i.e., no AVs are deployed; (2) unfettered assimilation, i.e., no regulatory control would be exercised and commercial entities would "push" the development and deployment; (3) regulated introduction, i.e., regulatory control would be applied and either private individuals or commercial fleet operators could own the AVs; and (4) fleets only, i.e., regulatory control would be applied and only commercial fleet operators could own the AVs. Our results suggest that two of these scenarios, (3) and (4), namely regulated privately-owned introduction or fleet ownership or autonomous vehicles would be less likely to cause harm than either the status quo or the unfettered options. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8dd668fad4b49209c5791a49e84c0872022-12-21T19:23:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01168e025622410.1371/journal.pone.0256224Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis.Veljko DubljevicGeorge ListJovan MilojevichNirav AjmeriWilliam A BauerMunindar P SinghEleni BardakaThomas A BirklandCharles H W EdwardsRoger C MayerIoan MunteanThomas M PowersHesham A RakhaVance A RicksM Shoaib SamandarThe impacts of autonomous vehicles (AV) are widely anticipated to be socially, economically, and ethically significant. A reliable assessment of the harms and benefits of their large-scale deployment requires a multi-disciplinary approach. To that end, we employed Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to make such an assessment. We obtained opinions from 19 disciplinary experts to assess the significance of 13 potential harms and eight potential benefits that might arise under four deployments schemes. Specifically, we considered: (1) the status quo, i.e., no AVs are deployed; (2) unfettered assimilation, i.e., no regulatory control would be exercised and commercial entities would "push" the development and deployment; (3) regulated introduction, i.e., regulatory control would be applied and either private individuals or commercial fleet operators could own the AVs; and (4) fleets only, i.e., regulatory control would be applied and only commercial fleet operators could own the AVs. Our results suggest that two of these scenarios, (3) and (4), namely regulated privately-owned introduction or fleet ownership or autonomous vehicles would be less likely to cause harm than either the status quo or the unfettered options.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256224 |
| spellingShingle | Veljko Dubljevic George List Jovan Milojevich Nirav Ajmeri William A Bauer Munindar P Singh Eleni Bardaka Thomas A Birkland Charles H W Edwards Roger C Mayer Ioan Muntean Thomas M Powers Hesham A Rakha Vance A Ricks M Shoaib Samandar Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. PLoS ONE |
| title | Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. |
| title_full | Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. |
| title_fullStr | Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. |
| title_short | Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. |
| title_sort | toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles a novel application of multi criteria decision analysis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256224 |
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