EIT-Colloquium: Should Manual Driving be Outlawed in the Future?Upcoming Talk@EIT

16 July 2018

Dr. Julian Müller will visit us on July 16th to present his research.

Should Manual Driving be Outlawed in the Future?

In recent years, tech evangelists have made headlines predicting that in the future manual driving will be outlawed. This article will investigate the question whether a ban of human driven cars can be defended on moral grounds in a future scenario in which autonomous cars are going to be significantly safer than manually driven cars. In this article, we will argue that in such a future scenario manually driven cars, for moral reasons, indeed should be banned from participating in regular traffic. Since the moral argument for outlawing manually driven cars will likely be met by resistance by car-aficionados, in the final part of the paper, we are devising a proposal for reconciling the strong moral case for a ban of manually driven cars with the widespread fondness of manual driving.

Julian Müller ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Hamburg am Lehrstuhl für Philosophie. Davor war er für zwei Jahre an der Brown University in Providence. Seine Schwerpunkte sind Politische Philosophie und Angewandten Ethik. In der Angewandten Ethik beschäftigt er sich unter anderem mit Fragen der Migrationsethik und ethischen Fragen rund um das Thema Autonomes Fahren.

When: 16 July 2018, 10:30-12:30
Where: Informatikum, Room G-123, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg-Stellingen