On the Limits of the Data Economy: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles
Bjorn O. Lundgren · Science and Engineering Ethics · 2025
Autonomous, automated, or self-driving vehicles (AVs) are already on our streets. Footnote 1 For policy purposes we should prepare for their broad arrival within the reasonably near future. Footnote 2 Despite this, many of the fundamental ethical questions, which require a response to develop ethically appropriate policies for AVs, remain unanswered. Footnote 3 While large parts of the literature have focused on the ethics of unavoidable crashes and issues relating to responsibility, Footnote 4 many have also recognized that AVs raise substantial questions relating to privacy and information ethics. Footnote 5 Nevertheless, there are relatively few substantial treatments on the topics of privacy and information ethics as far as AVs are concerned. Footnote 6