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The jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change Australia

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In this chosen article ‘the jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change Australia’ it discusses about the scenario of using robot truck drivers which leads all the truck drivers of Australia jobless. Therefore, the concept of this jobless vehicle is new trend of recent days, which lots of countries are thinking to implement this particular technology to make the business more efficient in today’s automated market (Abney, 2012). However, in addition to this, not only the truck drivers but also other small business

The jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change Australia

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1TOPICS IN IT ETHICSTOPICS IN IT ETHICSjobs killer is coming: How driverless truckscould change Australia
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2TOPICS IN IT ETHICSIntroduction The main aim of this particular essay is to do the analysis of four different ethical theories. Inthis chosen article ‘the jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change Australia’ itdiscusses about the scenario of using robot truck drivers which leads all the truck drivers ofAustralia jobless. Therefore, the concept of this jobless vehicle is new trend of recent days,which lots of countries are thinking to implement this particular technology to make the businessmore efficient in today’s automated market (Abney, 2012). The uses of driverless trucks help toreduce both the transport costs of cargos and driver costs in a large margin. In Australian market,to do rise in business, the company does transport their produced cargos to the consumers itselfwhich arrange jobs for many truck drivers. However, now the facility of driverless truck willmake many drivers jobless. However, in addition to this, not only the truck drivers but also othersmall business like truck drivers organization, truck vendors also at stake as all these manualtruck cannot be used for the automated process (Broad, 2014). In addition to this, due to theimplementation of robot driver they will not be in need of any foods, service stations etc due towhich all late nigh high-ways restaurants, dhaba, service station will also feel indirect effect fromthis driverless truck implementation. Hence, it becomes crucial to evaluate the implementation ofthis driverless truck facility on market is ethical or not. Therefore, in this particular essay, thissituation will be assessed based on four different ethical theories include Deontological theory,Utilitarian theory, Virtue theory and contract (Audi, 2012). The Situation
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3TOPICS IN IT ETHICSIn this selected case study it mainly discusses about the situation where jobs of majority truckdrivers are at stake due to the implementation of driverless truck (The jobs killer is coming.(2018). Therefore, due to this driverless truck it mainly ruins the occupations facility of lots ofdrivers in Australia. In a research analysis report of transport sector in Australia it deduced thatalmost of 95% production of goods produced in Australia needed to be transported to their finalconsumers as maximum numbers of production units are far away from city. Therefore, largeextent drivers group are associated with this truck driving occupation (Ferrell et al., 2013). Thisacts as a vital reason to evaluate the ethical background of driverless truck implementation inAustralia. Another question arises with the road safety of people where the driverless truck willrun. There is high chance of getting accident of this driverless truck and also leads to numbers oflife loss. In addition to this, without any manual operation, the truck can get to out of order incase of any system failure (Goodall, 2014). In addition to this, not only the truck drivers jobs is at stake many various businesses which areproportionally related with this business also face downfall in their profit margin. Therefore,from the above scenario it is identified that it will not be ethical for Australian people toimplement this driverless truck. However, in next section it will be more elaborated by using theethical theories.The Four Classical Theories of Ethics According to Shapiro, Stefkovich and Gutierrez, (2014), the field of ethics mainly discussesabout defending, recommending, systematizing as well as the concept of both wrong and rightbehavior. However, the ethical theories can also be divided in three subject areas: normativeethics, meta ethics and applied ethics. All these different ethical theories help to judge both the
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