Why Ethics Matters For Autonomous Cars

Introduction:
Autonomous cars are arguably the most significant innovation in transportation since automobiles were first invented in the 1880s. Although these vehicles are still relatively new and being discovered to their entirety, self-driving cars have the potential to transform how humans and goods move around. In other words, these new creations can positively impact the lives of the members of society in a vast number of ways that will make transportation more efficient than ever before.
Background:
During the beginning of the 20th century was an era of magnetism with the design of modern day autonomous cars and the conducted failures, with lost hopes and aspirations of an innovation that at that time seemed inconceivable, this unforsaken imagination perished in the 1950’s. However, it was not until the 1980’s when Mercedes-Benz accomplished the insurmountable task of building and testing the one of the most innovative and modern autonomous cars in

It is evident that these innovations decrease upon the number of car crashes, however, one can ponder upon the limitations of this benefit. In fact, Patrick Lin, an author of the book “Why Ethics Matters for Autonomous Cars,” explored an interesting scenario that revealed the ethical issues related to self-driving cars. He states that, “Imagine in some distant future, your autonomous car encounters this terrible choice: it must either swerve left and strike an eight-year old girl or swerve right and strike an 80-year old grandmother” (Lin, 2016). The car has three choices, hit the child, elderly woman, or hit both. One may say that it would be more justifiable to hit the elderly woman because she has lived a full life. Whereas the young child has not encountered any of these milestones that makes life worthwhile. Lin further explains this dilemma by