#Autonomous vehicles expected to eliminate thousands of jobs while making trucker’s job more tech-oriented and attractive to younger workers

Many industry observers believe #autonomous vehicles will eliminate hundreds of thousands of North American jobs. Others contend that this view is simplistic and ill-informed, that the long-haul truckers’ job, for example, will not disappear anytime soon. Moreover, they believe autonomous technology will, in the years ahead, transform the truck driver into a tech-savvy logistics manager. […]

The moral algorithm – a closer look at the ethical issues regarding #autonomous vehicles

An esoteric but increasingly debated issue concerning the introduction of autonomous trucks and vehicles on highways is the ethical decision-making capacities of such vehicles – the so-called #moral algorithm. An algorithm is a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do. A critical question is how and who should program autonomous vehicles to deal […]