Punishing autonomous machines? The example of autonomous cars

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: According to the statistics of the Federal Office, 86 percent of road-traffic accidents are caused by mistakes made by the car driver. The creation of autonomous cars could solve this problem! This essay pays attention to one moral aspect of autonomous machine...