Applying Ethical Theory: Assignment
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Applying Ethical Theory: Assignment
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SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHS, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITYThe jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change AustraliaAssignment 3: Applying Ethical TheoryYour NameStudent NumberWord Count: 1000
The jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change Australia1.IntroductionThis article is about one most exciting technological advances that could have been responsible for ripping or tearing the community apart. This article talks about the invention of automated or driverless trucks. This article was released on the month of May, 2016. Australia is a nation where around two hundred billion dollar is generated by the transport sector (NewsComAu, 2017). The economy is dependent on this sector. This article says that the economy and the community will be devastated if driverless trucks are introduced. TechCrunch’s prediction says that automating trucks cannot make people jobless. The truck drivers will lose their jobs and thistechnology will also affect the roadsides businesses. The café employees, attendants of petrol stations and other service stations that are dependent on the economy of roadside will lose theirjobs. The rate of unemployed people in Australia will rise. The future generations will get affected very badly. This essay takes an ethical approach to describe this advanced technological invention. It finds out whether this act is ethical in terms of four main theories of ethics (Arntzenius, 2014). The four theories are called Virtue Ethics, Deontology theory, Utilitarianism theory and also Contract Theory. 2.Utilitarianism TheoryThe theory of Utilitarianism deals with utility. In this context utility does not mean usage. Here itstands for happiness or pleasure. This theory says that if any type of act or policy generates happiness or pleasure among a large number of people then that policy or act is absolutely ethical (Arntzenius, 2014). This act of introducing driverless or automated trucks is supposed to take away the jobs of all the truck drivers. It will also take away the jobs of the people who used to serve in the cafes, attendants of petrol stations and other service stations that are dependent on the economy of roadside. The rate of unemployed people in Australia will rise. The future generations will get affected very badly. This essay takes an ethical approach to describe this advanced technological invention. If so many people lose their jobs then there will be Your Name
The jobs killer is coming: How driverless trucks could change Australiaeconomical crisis because a major part of the economy is dependent on the transport sector or industry. The community or society of Australia will be torn apart (Vaughn, 2015). Technology cannot be without any fault. So this technology will not be totally safe. This will lead to a chaotic situation in the country. Automated trucks will not be able to take crucial decisions. Suppose a group of people are coming in front and there is a single person walking on the other side then itwill be difficult for an automated system to react. Utilitarianism theory would prefer to give happiness to most of the people and sacrifice the life of the passengers. This is an ethical issue (Niebuhr, 2013). The introduction of driverless trucks will make people jobless and this will bringdissatisfaction among the people of the society. According to Utilitarianism an act is ethically correct if it gives happiness to most people (Crimmins, 2017). Therefore according to this theory this act is not ethical.3.Deontology TheoryThis theory of Deontology says that if a person carries out their duties properly then the act is ethical. This theory does not depend on the happiness of the people or any type of contract (Playford, Roberts & Playford, 2015). Here duty and ethics are related (Chen & Schonger, 2017). Automated trucks will have inbuilt programs and it is the duty of those programs to incorporate safety features in it. This will protect the pedestrians as well as the passengers. This theory says humans are ends in themselves (Lazar, 2017). Introducing driverless trucks will not value the presence of human beings as most of the people who used to drive trucks would lose their jobs. The level of unemployment will increase. According to this theory this act is not ethical. 4.Virtue TheoryThis theory deals with the moral values of an individual. A human does right things based on their moral values (Van Hooft, 2014). Elon Musk of Tesla said that introducing this technology would improve the life of the people. The quality of life will improve (NewsComAu, 2017). That shows that the motive behind the invention of this type of technological advancement is not Your Name
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