Engineer BER 16-5 Autonomous Vehicle Harm Minimization Risk Management Participation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/73#Engineer_BER_16-5_Autonomous_Vehicle_Harm_Minimization_Risk_Management_Participation
Properties
Instance of
AutonomousVehicleHarmMinimizationRiskManagementParticipationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AutonomousVehicleHarmMinimizationRiskManagementParticipationObligation
Case context
An engineer is a member of a team developing a driverless/autonomous vehicle operating system, tasked with considering harm-minimization outcomes in unavoidable crash scenarios — specifically whether the system should minimize harm to vehicle occupants only or to all parties involved in the accident.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.86
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer in BER Case 16-5
Obligation statement
The engineer in BER Case 16-5 was obligated to fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team developing the autonomous vehicle operating system, to express clearly and unambiguously any concerns regarding the safety of the harm-minimization operating logic, and if necessary to recommend further study before the operating system was deployed for public use.
Temporal scope
During the development and pre-deployment phases of the autonomous vehicle operating system
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
The conclusions in Case 16-5 suggest the engineer fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team and express clearly and unambiguously concerns regarding safety of the operating system.
Text references
The BER also suggested that, if necessary, the engineer recommend further study before the operating system is utilized.
The conclusions in Case 16-5 suggest the engineer fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team and express clearly and unambiguously concerns regarding safety of the operating system.
The development team was tasked with considering outcomes to choose in the event of an unavoidable vehicle crash – does the system choose the option that reduces the harm to vehicle occupants only, or should the system operate in a way that will minimize the harm that is done to anyone involved in the accident?
TTL
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case73:Engineer_BER_16-5_Autonomous_Vehicle_Harm_Minimization_Risk_Management_Participation a proeth:AutonomousVehicleHarmMinimizationRiskManagementParticipationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer BER 16-5 Autonomous Vehicle Harm Minimization Risk Management Participation" ;
proeth:casecontext "An engineer is a member of a team developing a driverless/autonomous vehicle operating system, tasked with considering harm-minimization outcomes in unavoidable crash scenarios — specifically whether the system should minimize harm to vehicle occupants only or to all parties involved in the accident." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.86" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case73:Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_for_Further_Study_Recommendation_in_BER_16-5_Analogy ;
proeth:discoveredincase "73" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T23:43:26.005222+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "73" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T23:43:26.005222+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer in BER Case 16-5" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Autonomous Vehicle Harm Minimization Risk Management Participation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The engineer in BER Case 16-5 was obligated to fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team developing the autonomous vehicle operating system, to express clearly and unambiguously any concerns regarding the safety of the harm-minimization operating logic, and if necessary to recommend further study before the operating system was deployed for public use." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The conclusions in Case 16-5 suggest the engineer fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team and express clearly and unambiguously concerns regarding safety of the operating system." ;
proeth:temporalscope "During the development and pre-deployment phases of the autonomous vehicle operating system" ;
proeth:textreferences "The BER also suggested that, if necessary, the engineer recommend further study before the operating system is utilized.",
"The conclusions in Case 16-5 suggest the engineer fully and actively participate as a member of the engineering risk management team and express clearly and unambiguously concerns regarding safety of the operating system.",
"The development team was tasked with considering outcomes to choose in the event of an unavoidable vehicle crash – does the system choose the option that reduces the harm to vehicle occupants only, or should the system operate in a way that will minimize the harm that is done to anyone involved in the accident?" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 73 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T23:54:19.985077"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 73 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
73
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T23:43:26.005222+00:00
First case
73
Generated
2026-02-25T23:43:26.005222+00:00
Attributed to
Case 73 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T23:54:19.985077
Generated by
ProEthica Case 73 Extraction