The Jobs Killer Is Coming: How Driverless Trucks Could Change Australia - Assignment

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHS, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
The jobs killer is coming: How
driverless trucks could change
Australia
Assignment 3: Applying Ethical Theory
Student Number
Word Count: -1250

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.......................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
What is going on?.......................................................................................................................3
What are the facts?.................................................................................................................3
What are the issues?...............................................................................................................3
Who is affected?.....................................................................................................................3
Ethics Analysis...........................................................................................................................4
Utilitarianism theory..............................................................................................................4
Deontology Theory................................................................................................................4
Virtue theory..........................................................................................................................4
Contract theory.......................................................................................................................5
Ethical issue...............................................................................................................................5
Ethical implication.....................................................................................................................5
What can be done about it?........................................................................................................6
What options are there?..............................................................................................................6
Which option is best – and why?...............................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
With the change in the technologies and economic busienss condition, there are
several theories and implemented work factors have been taken into consideration. In this
report, various ethical theories have been implemented to evaluate the implemented work
program. The case study showcases how transport owners have been using the automatic
advance technologies in their work functions to win over the market and how it has been
killing jobs available to employees in Australia (Bowen, 2010).
What is going on?
This report divulges the key factors which need to be considered for evaluating the
ethical and moral issues in the adoption of the driverless trucks and it will kill the jobs
available in Australia. By using the several theories, it could be assessed that if advance
technologies are adopted then it will negatively impact the society and increase the economic
burden at large (Ma, & Safra, 2016).
What are the facts?
The fact of report shows that negative and positive impact of the adopted driverless
technologies which will increase the overall outcomes of the busienss. The judgement
practice to implement driverless trucks will be assessed on the basis of ethical issue, moral
support and implemented strategies program (Bowen, 2010).
What are the issues?
There are several issues which will arise in such as increased unemployment rate, risk
of life and failure of the advance system which may also put negative impact on eh society
and economic at large (Darwell, 2008).