UMass Lowell professor steers ethical debate on self-driving cars

(University of Massachusetts Lowell) Should your self-driving car protect you at all costs? Or should it steer you into a ditch to avoid colliding with another vehicle? UMass Lowell Prof. Nicholas Evans has received a National Science Foundation grant to study the ethical dilemmas associated with autonomous vehicles.Those are the kinds of questions that preoccupy Nicholas Evans, a UMass Lowell assistant professor of philosophy who teaches engineering ethics and studies the ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies, including drones and self-driving vehicles.

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