Print Email Facebook Twitter The European Commission report on ethics of connected and automated vehicles and the future of ethics of transportation Title The European Commission report on ethics of connected and automated vehicles and the future of ethics of transportation Author Santoni De Sio, F. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Date 2021 Abstract The paper has two goals. The first is presenting the main results of the recent report Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: recommendations on road safety, privacy, fairness, explainability and responsibility written by the Horizon 2020 European Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility, of which the author of this paper has been member and rapporteur. The second is presenting some broader ethical and philosophical implications of these recommendations, and using these to contribute to the establishment of Ethics of Transportation as an independent branch of applied ethics. The recent debate on the ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) presents a paradox and an opportunity. The paradox is the presence of a flourishing debate on the ethics of one very specific transportation technology without ethics of transportation being in itself a well-established academic discipline. The opportunity is that now that a spotlight has been switched on the ethical dimensions of CAVs it may be easier to establish a broader debate on ethics of transportation. While the 20 recommendations of the EU report are grouped in three macro-areas: road safety, data ethics, and responsibility, in this paper they will be grouped according to eight philosophical themes: Responsible Innovation, road justice, road safety, freedom, human control, privacy, data fairness, responsibility. These are proposed as the first topics for a new ethics of transportation. Subject Ethics of self-driving carsEthics of transportationEuropean Commission Report on ethics of CAVsResponsible innovation in self-driving cars To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:61301aec-9e7a-4b90-864c-abcd42ce49bd DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09609-8 ISSN 1388-1957 Source Ethics and Information Technology, 23 (4), 713-726 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 F. Santoni De Sio Files PDF SantoniDeSio2021_Article_ ... ortOnE.pdf 776.49 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:61301aec-9e7a-4b90-864c-abcd42ce49bd/datastream/OBJ/view