The ethics of vehicle automation and alternate approaches to current moral problems

Abstract

In the present paper we use the ethical problem of automation in transport and vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) for the critical analysis of the different classic ethical and moral positions. Due to the intersection between the AI with bioethics, nomoethics and technoethics research fields, entails a drastic thread to its foundations. Additionally, we judge necessary for our purpose, as for rigurosity, to make use of a minimum amount of formal tools and expose a project of an updated, systemic and materialist, ethical theory that surpasses their rival systems. Thus, we try to provide the basis for a more fruitful alternative theory and explain how the traditional ethical positions may be currently obsolete, if not directly inapplicable, to cope intelligent automation and similar moral problems, at the present time.