Ethical Analysis of Project Management in Autonomous Vehicles: Issues

This report provides an ethical analysis of project management within the context of autonomous vehicles. It identifies three key ethical issues: liability in case of accidents, maintaining confidentiality of user data, and the ethical considerations of gathering and processing data quickly to avoid dangerous situations. The report examines the stakeholders associated with each issue, including manufacturing companies, the community, and programmers, and then applies relevant ethical views such as deontology, relativism, and justice ethics. The author assesses their personal values of fairness, perfection, and self-actualization in relation to these issues, linking them to ethical principles like deontology and consequentialism. The report concludes by providing a comprehensive overview of ethical considerations within the field of autonomous vehicle project management, supported by references to academic research.

Ethical Analysis 1
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Ethical Analysis 2
a) Identify 3 ethical issues that may be associated with the situation as described in the
article.
 Gathering and processing the necessary data quick enough to avoid dangerous
circumstances.
 Liability is another ethical issues, who is liable when an autonomous car crashes? The
driver? Telsa or the programmers? –
 The technology in the driverless vehicles have errors and they are not immune to the
failure of the system.
 The ethical issue which would arise surrounding the liability is assigning fault when the
autonomous car crashes.
 Another ethical issue is the maintaining confidentiality.
 Individuals do not have confident of the driverless cars,
 They may not trust it with their life as they are been driven by machine and it could have
faults.
 Another ethical issue facing the driverless vehicle is the issue of outsourcing the
production of the various components.
 The organization making the driverless cars could have problems when they are
outsourcing production of various components to make these cars.
a) For the 3 ethical issues nominated, identify the key stakeholders.
 Liability ethical issues: The stakeholder who is held responsible is the manufacturing
companies.
 If the software misinterprets a worn down sign the blame falls to the manufacturing
company.
 The autonomous vehicle has become more prevalent system for the responsibility.
Maintaining confidentiality: Community are the main stakeholders.
They do not have confident in the driverless vehicles as they are prone to risk as system
can failure.
 The ethical issue of gathering and processing of the data quicker; the stakeholder is the
programmer.
 These individuals are responsible to carry out all the ethical scenarios and prevent
occurrence of a situation.
b) For each stakeholder group identified, select what you believe is the relevant ethical
view
 Manufacturing company: the ethical principle they would take is deontology
 On this company the right and the wrong is dependent on meeting their duty and the
independent of the consequences.
 The future liability of the self-driven software rested on the company.

Ethical Analysis 3
 Programmer: relativism. These individuals believed that there is no single ethical
truth
 Each and every aspect they undertake is contingency based
 Maintaining confidentiality: justice ethics is the ethical view in regard to this
stakeholder
 The duty to treat all the parties fairly in regards to the cost and safety is considered.
c) For the 3 issues you have outlined assess your personal values and then, for each
issue, determine your own closest fit to the list of 7 ‘ethical principles’?
 My personal values are as follow;
 Fairness: This closely apply to the one for liability.
 The liability is subjected to the manufacturing organization and the fault could be the
programmer, or the driver.
 Perfection is my second value on maintain confidentiality.
 I like being perfect is each task I do to make sure i do everything well.
 Self-actualization; this is closest to gathering each information for quick decision
making.
 The closest ethical principles that fit in my list are;
 Deontology and consequentialism
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Ethical Analysis 4
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