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Full-Text Articles in Transportation Law

Law And Moral Dilemmas, Bert I. Huang Jan 2016

Law And Moral Dilemmas, Bert I. Huang

Faculty Scholarship

A runaway trolley rushes toward five people standing on the tracks, and it will surely kill them all. Fortunately, you can reach a switch that will turn the trolley onto a side track – but then you notice that one other person is standing there. Is it morally permissible for you to turn the trolley to that side track, where it will kill one person instead of five? Is it not only morally permissible, but even morally required? This classic thought experiment is a mainstay in the repertoire of law school hypotheticals, often raised alongside cases about cannibalism at sea, …


International Transportation, Andrew M. Danas, Philip Peng Jan 2016

International Transportation, Andrew M. Danas, Philip Peng

The International Lawyer

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Technological Opacity, Predictability, And Self-Driving Cars, Harry Surden, Mary-Anne Williams Jan 2016

Technological Opacity, Predictability, And Self-Driving Cars, Harry Surden, Mary-Anne Williams

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Autonomous or “self-driving” cars are vehicles that drive themselves without human supervision or input. Because of safety benefits that they are expected to bring, autonomous vehicles are likely to become more common. Notably, for the first time, people will share a physical environment with computer-controlled machines that can both direct their own activities and that have considerable range of movement. This represents a distinct change from our current context. Today people share physical spaces either with machines that have free range of movement, but are controlled by people (e.g. automobiles) or with machines that are controlled by computers, but highly …