Value Sensitive Design in the Development of Driverless Vehicles: A Case Study on an Autonomous Family Vehicle

Abstract

Complex new functionalities and dissimilar stakeholder groups pose challenges to the requirement analysis for driverless vehicles. To overcome these challenges, we propose a value-oriented reference process for innovative functionalities of an autonomous family vehicle. The value-oriented measures are taken from the approach of Value Sensitive Design. In our application, we have found that the consideration of the human values involved is of great importance for the identification of stakeholders and the management of their potentially conflicting interests throughout the development process.

Compensating for the Absence of a Required Accompanying Person: A Draft of a Functional System Architecture for an Automated Vehicle

“…By assuming a concrete use case, the requirements can be specified in more detail and approaches for the use-case-specific challenges can be elaborated. At the same time, numerous challenges are uncovered through the prototypical realization, for example in the inclusion of users who are dependent on a walking aid or conflicts of interest between different stakeholder groups due to novel functionalities of the vehicle [44].…”