Supply Chains, Work Alternatives, and Autonomous Vehicles

Book chapter

Luke Golemon, Fritz Allhoff, T.J. Broy
Ryan Jenkins, David Černý, Tomáš Hříbek (eds), Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 316–336

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197639191.003.0019

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Golemon, L., Allhoff, F., & Broy, T. J. (2022). Supply Chains, Work Alternatives, and Autonomous Vehicles. In R. Jenkins, D. Černý, & T. H. (eds) (Eds.), Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond (pp. 316–336). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197639191.003.0019

Chicago/Turabian Click to copy
Golemon, Luke, Fritz Allhoff, and T.J. Broy. “Supply Chains, Work Alternatives, and Autonomous Vehicles.” In Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond, edited by Ryan Jenkins, David Černý, and Tomáš Hříbek (eds), 316–336. Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Golemon, Luke, et al. “Supply Chains, Work Alternatives, and Autonomous Vehicles.” Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond, edited by Ryan Jenkins et al., Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 316–36, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197639191.003.0019.

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@inbook{luke2022a,
  title = {Supply Chains, Work Alternatives, and Autonomous Vehicles},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {316–336},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  doi = {10.1093/oso/9780197639191.003.0019},
  author = {Golemon, Luke and Allhoff, Fritz and Broy, T.J.},
  editor = {Jenkins, Ryan and Černý, David and (eds), Tomáš Hříbek},
  booktitle = {Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond}
}

Automated vehicles promise much in the way of both economic boons and increased personal safety. For better or worse, the effects of automating personal vehicles will not be felt for some time. In contrast, the effects of automated work vehicles, like semi-trucks, will be felt much sooner—within the next decade. The costs and benefits of automation will not be distributed evenly; while most of us will be positively affected by the lower prices overall, those losing their livelihoods to the automated semi-trucks and other similar work vehicles will be much worse off. This sets up a classic distributive justice problem: how do we balance the harms and benefits of automation? In this paper, the authors recommend work alternatives: policies that the government would enact in order to ensure that each person could live a decent life even if one could not work, especially for reasons like having one’s job automated. After arguing for this position, we propose some policy guidelines.