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  • Chinese Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Automated Vehicles

    Edited by Chunyan Ding, Ruiping Fan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the significance of automated vehicles from a Chinese perspective, bringing a wide range of scholarship to bear on the question. This project takes a deep dive into Chinese ethical and legal perspectives on automated vehicles, providing a valuable resource for the general public. It also prompts readers to compare and contrast Chinese and Western viewpoints regarding the use of ... Read more

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  • Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems

    An Optimal and Robust Perspective

    Series series Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Modelling, Identification and Control
    Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: An Optimal and Robust Perspective reports and encourages technology transfer in the field of cooperative control of multi-agent systems. The book deals with UGVs, UAVs, UUVs and spacecraft, and more. It presents an extended exposition of the authors' recent work on all aspects of multi-agent technology. Modelling and cooperative control of multi-agent ... Read more

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  • Smart Urbanism

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  • Autonomous Vehicle Ethics

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    "A runaway trolley is speeding down a track" So begins what is perhaps the most fecund thought experiment of the past several decades since its invention by Philippa Foot. Since then, moral philosophers have applied the "trolley problem" as a thought experiment to study many different ethical conflicts - and chief among them is the programming of autonomous vehicles. Nowadays, however, very few ... Read more

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  • Automation Is a Myth

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    For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy, claiming that machines will take over production and supplant humans. But far from being self-acting, technical solutions are ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Social Sciences (ICMETSS 2022)

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
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  • Digital and Smart Cities

    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
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