Informed Decision-Making Enablement Obligation Invoked for Automobile Manufacturer Client
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/165#Informed_Decision-Making_Enablement_Obligation_Invoked_for_Automobile_Manufacturer_Client
Properties
Instance of
InformedDecision-MakingEnablementObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InformedDecision-MakingEnablementObligation
Applied to
Automobile Manufacturer Autonomous Vehicle Developer Client (Present Case)
Balancing with
Client Loyalty
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
Engineer A's risk assessment team must ensure that the automobile manufacturer — as the non-engineer decision-making body that will ultimately determine the algorithm's design — receives all information relevant and pertinent to the harm-distribution decision, including the ethical, legal, reputational, and public welfare implications of each framework, so that the manufacturer can exercise genuinely informed judgment
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
The manufacturer is a non-engineer decision-maker who may not independently recognize the full ethical and public welfare implications of the algorithmic choice — Engineer A's obligation is to ensure that the recommendation enables genuinely informed decision-making by presenting all material considerations, not merely the technical optimization analysis
Invoked by
Engineer A Autonomous Vehicle Risk Assessment Team Engineer
Tension resolution
The informed decision-making enablement obligation reinforces rather than conflicts with the faithful agent obligation — serving the client well requires ensuring the client has complete information
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is assigned to an engineering risk assessment team whose members are being asked to make a recommendation relating to potential situations that could arise in connection with the operation of driverless/autonomous vehicles
Text references
Engineer A is assigned to an engineering risk assessment team whose members are being asked to make a recommendation relating to potential situations that could arise in connection with the operation of driverless/autonomous vehicles
does the vehicle's system choose the outcome that will likely result in the greatest potential for safety for the vehicle's passengers or does the vehicle's software system instead choose an option in which the least amount of potential harm is done to any of those involved in an accident
TTL
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case165:Informed_Decision-Making_Enablement_Obligation_Invoked_for_Automobile_Manufacturer_Client a proeth:InformedDecision-MakingEnablementObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Informed Decision-Making Enablement Obligation Invoked for Automobile Manufacturer Client" ;
proeth:appliedto "Automobile Manufacturer Autonomous Vehicle Developer Client (Present Case)" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty",
"Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's risk assessment team must ensure that the automobile manufacturer — as the non-engineer decision-making body that will ultimately determine the algorithm's design — receives all information relevant and pertinent to the harm-distribution decision, including the ethical, legal, reputational, and public welfare implications of each framework, so that the manufacturer can exercise genuinely informed judgment" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "165" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T23:26:19.084798+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "165" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T23:26:19.084798+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The manufacturer is a non-engineer decision-maker who may not independently recognize the full ethical and public welfare implications of the algorithmic choice — Engineer A's obligation is to ensure that the recommendation enables genuinely informed decision-making by presenting all material considerations, not merely the technical optimization analysis" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Autonomous Vehicle Risk Assessment Team Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Informed Decision-Making Enablement Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is assigned to an engineering risk assessment team whose members are being asked to make a recommendation relating to potential situations that could arise in connection with the operation of driverless/autonomous vehicles" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The informed decision-making enablement obligation reinforces rather than conflicts with the faithful agent obligation — serving the client well requires ensuring the client has complete information" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is assigned to an engineering risk assessment team whose members are being asked to make a recommendation relating to potential situations that could arise in connection with the operation of driverless/autonomous vehicles",
"does the vehicle's system choose the outcome that will likely result in the greatest potential for safety for the vehicle's passengers or does the vehicle's software system instead choose an option in which the least amount of potential harm is done to any of those involved in an accident" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 165 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:40:57.918000"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 165 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
165
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T23:26:19.084798+00:00
First case
165
Generated
2026-02-27T23:26:19.084798+00:00
Attributed to
Case 165 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:40:57.918000
Generated by
ProEthica Case 165 Extraction