This document summarizes an autonomous vehicle project conducted by students at Bahria University in Islamabad. It discusses the technology behind autonomous vehicles and some of the ethical issues they present. Autonomous vehicles use computer vision and 3D imaging to navigate without human input, which provides benefits like increased accessibility and safety but also challenges like how to program responses in emergency situations that require choosing whether to harm the passenger or others. The conclusion calls for an override option and leaving life-and-death decisions to nature rather than programming autonomous vehicles to make those choices.

1. Autonomous Vehicles
Group Members: Irtiza Naeem Noor
Tashfain Yousuf
Class: BEE 8 B
Department of Electrical Engineering
Bahria University
Islamabad
Ethical Issues

2. Background
• Cars Intelligent enough to take you places.
• Autonomous cars came to market in
1980's.
• Uses Computer Vision to avoid obstacles
with the help of 3D imaging.

3. Autonomous Vehicles Technology

4. Pros
• Usefull for disabled persons.
• Negligible human error.
• Theft proof.
• 7%* reduction in crashes.
• Human friendly and Law abiding.
* www.iihs.com/roadsafety

5. Cons
• Expensive.
• Poor performance in adverse weather
conditions.
• Vehicle to vehicle technology cannot
function ideally without adoption across
the board.
• Suicide.
• No accountability.

6. Ethical scenario
1. https://medium.com/@tanayj/self-driving-cars-and-the-trolley-problem
2. http://www.businessinsider.sg/the-ethical-questions-facing-self-
driving-cars-2015-10

7. • Should the autonomous cars be
programmed to sacrifice the passenger or
someone else!
!

8. Conclusion
• Driver of an ordinnary car and programer
of self driving car both are humans.
• There should be an override option.
• Leave the works of nature to God.
• Robots drive better than Man.

9. Q & A

10. Q & A