Annotated Source 1 - TED-Ed. “The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars - Patrick Lin.” YouTube, uploaded by PDF

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TED-Ed. “The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars - Patrick Lin.” YouTube, uploaded
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Annotated Bibliography 1 TED-Ed. “The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars - Patrick Lin.” YouTube, uploaded by TED-Ed, 8 Dec. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIoDYVfKA0. The author, Patrick Lin discusses the importance of decision making in regards to self-driving cars and the safety of others. Although the self-driving vehicle allows a person to have some sort of control of the car, it also means that the vehicle is not operated manually. When taking a vehicle like this into consideration of purchasing, the car owner needs to be aware of the sacrifices they may have to make if necessary. For example, in the video there is an animation of an autonomous car with a person in the driver’s seat, and three other vehicles surrounding them on a highway. The vehicle in front of them is a truck and one of their packages falls off the trailer. The author states that because they’re going 60-70 miles mph on a highway, “they won’t be able to stop in time” (Lin). This would result in the self-driving car hitting the vehicle in front of them (sacrificing their own life), a motorcyclist, or an SUV full of passengers. The difference between self-driving cars and manual driving cars in this case is the decision making and safety measures the car or the person must take. The author would call the decision a manual driving car a ‘reaction’ because “whichever way we’d react would just be understood as that- a reaction, not a deliberate decision”(Lin). One could blame the creators of the self-driving AI for the accident or death. The author Patrick Lin is a professor at California Polytechnic State University, a college for Liberal Arts. He received a Bachelor's Degree at the University of California in Berkeley, and a Ph.D and Master’s Degree at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He’s had many different conferences and appointments with other organizations (besides Ted Talk) such as the National Academy of Engineering, and specializes in technology, ethics, and science. Lin’s

perspective and statements on self-driving cars are well backed up, and make for a reliable source for my argument against self-driving cars. He was also affiliated with many different organizations like Global Future Council on AI and Robotics, a Research Director for Military Operations and National Security, and a member of Karel Capek Center for Values in Science and Technology. Taking a look at the video, there were no contradictions in Lin’s statements, and he supports his reasonings with great evidence. He left out the fact that self-driving cars would mean that the person in the driver’s seat would have to trust the car, and it’s decisions. Patrick Lin and his take on The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Car is a valuable source because he discusses the ethical problems in self-driving cars, and the reasoning for why self-driving cars are taken into consideration; human errors and minimizing harm....