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. 2023 Jan 19;23(3):1151. doi: 10.3390/s23031151

Table 3.

Ethical dilemmas in Autonomous vehicles.

Title Overview Ethical Concerns
The Future of Transportation: Ethical, Legal, Social and Economic Impacts of Self-driving Vehicles in the Year 2025 [43] Summarises the numerous ethical, legal, societal, and economic effects that may arise while implementing self-driving vehicles by 2025, including concerns about individuality, confidentiality, accountability, privacy, and data security. Security and damage prevention, autonomy, responsibility, rights, data privacy insurance, and discrimination.
Ethical issues in focus by the autonomous vehicles industry [44] Reviews AVs ethical stories published in scientific papers and business reports by organizations holding California AV testing permits. Raises concerns over cybersecurity, safety, accountability, human carelessness, and control concerns.
Self-Driving Vehicles—an Ethical Overview [45] Offers a thorough discussion on the ethical concerns that realistic self-driving car technologies offer. Highlights strong arguments in favor of and against driverless cars and safety necessities for the road traffic system. Responsibility, public attitudes, safety, control, information, and social Justice
The Future of Automated Vehicles in Canada [46] Outlines the Transportation and Road Safety Ministries report on adoption of AV on public roads having short, medium, and long-term policy ramifications. Also identifies possibilities, limitations, and strategies for fostering collaboration both domestically and abroad. The following issues were mentioned: road safety, standards and rules cannot be created separately, innovation needs to be encouraged, privacy issues, education and awareness, technological expertise, traffic laws and requirement of updated traffic rules.
Cybersecurity Challenges in the uptake of Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Driving [47] Discusses the key ideas underlying the cybersecurity of AI for autonomous vehicles. The following issues were summarized: lack of knowledge and data validation techniques for the AI system, encryption and authentication issues, and flaws in security design.