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Thomson's Trolley Problem

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2017
No one has done more over the past four decades to draw attention to the importance of, and attempt to solve, a particularly vexing problem in ethics—the Trolley Problem—than Judith Jarvis Thomson. Though the problem is originally due to Philippa Foot (“The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect”), Thomson showed how Foot’s simple ...
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NOC Liverpool Unit 117 Glider deployment report for the DEFRA MAREMAP Project, April - May 2012 deployment [PDF]

, 2012
This document summarises the extended deployment of a 200 metre depth rated Slocum Electric glider by the National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK from the 2nd April to 17th May 2012. The deployment was aimed as a pilot study for the use of gliders by
Balfour, C., Knight, P.
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The Infrastructure Trolley Problem: Positioning Safe‐to‐fail Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaptation

Earth's Future, 2019
Motivated by the need for cities to prepare for and adapt to climate change, we advance the paradigm of safe‐to‐fail by focusing on the decision dilemmas and the consideration of infrastructure failure consequences in developing infrastructure ...
Yeowon Kim, Mikhail V. Chester, Daniel A. Eisenberg, Charles L. Redman   +3 more
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Solving the Single-Vehicle Self-Driving Car Trolley Problem Using Risk Theory and Vehicle Dynamics. [PDF]

Sci Eng Ethics, 2020
Davnall R.
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Scalar consequentialism the right way [PDF]

, 2018
The rightness and wrongness of actions fits on a continuous scale. This fits the way we evaluate actions chosen among a diverse range of options, even though English speakers don’t use the words “righter” and “wronger”.
Sinhababu, Neil
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According to Whose Morals? The Decision-Making Algorithms of Self-Driving Cars and the Limits of the Law

Future Transportation
The emergence of self-driving vehicles raises not only technological challenges, but also profound moral and legal challenges, especially when the decisions made by these vehicles can affect human lives.
Lea Pődör, István Lakatos
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Measurement and analysis of underground electromagnetic interference of medium and low frequency band

Gong-kuang zidonghua, 2013
In view of problem that underground monitoring devices are mainly influenced by electromagnetic interferences of medium and low frequency band, main electromagnetic interferences of medium and low frequency band of coal mine underground, namely surge ...
ZOU Zhe-qiang, ZHUANG Jie, QU Shi-jia
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Enhanced Control of Overhead Cranes with Input Shaping Integrated Proportional Derivative Sliding Mode Control

Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
Overhead cranes play a crucial role in industrial applications such as construction, manufacturing, and logistics, where precise and safe load transportation is required.
Trong Hieu Do, Quang Du Tran
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Trolley problems in context – ERRATUM

Judgment and Decision Making, 2023
Christopher Shallow, Rumen Iliev, Douglas Medin   +2 more
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Orbiter processing facility service platform failure and redesign [PDF]

In a high bay of the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) at the Kennedy Space Center, technicians were preparing the space shuttle orbiter Discovery for rollout to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).
Harris, Jesse L.
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