Choose any 2 questions. Apply five theories below to each question.

Post must be at least 250 words. Make sure the bulk of your response is focused on how the ethical theory supports your argument.

1. An e-commerce site accidentally listed the selling price as $10 for an item that is supposed to sell for $100. Many customers purchase the item at the mistake price before the error was caught. Should the website be required to honor the mistake price?
2. Should the FBI be responsible for the accuracy of information about criminals and crime victims it enters into the National Crime Information Center database?
3. Over a period of seven years, about 500 residents of Freeport, Texas, were overbilled for their water usage. Each resident paid on average about $170 too much, making the total amount of the overbillings about $100,000. The city council decided not to issue refunds, saying that about 300,000 bills would have had to be examined, some residents had left town, and the individual refunds were not that large. Did the city council make the right decision?
4. Should the US government ban the deployment of vehicles with SAE Level 3 automation?
5. Consider the Uber test-vehicle accident described in the lecture. How would you divide moral responsibility for the death among Uber’s engineers and managers, the vehicle’s safety operator, and the pedestrian?
6. Suppose someone uses an app to summon from a taxi service a ride in an autonomous automobile. The taxi arrives, the customer gets in, and the car begins traveling to the desired destination. The customer is the only person in the taxi. Along the way, the taxi runs a red light and collides with a human-driven automobile that had the right of way. Who should be liable for the accident: the company that manufactured the vehicle, the taxi service, the customer, or someone else?
7. Debate the moral responsibility of three agents associated with the two Therac-25 overdoses occurring in Tyler, Texas: the radiation technician, the hospital director, and the programmer who wrote the code controlling the machine. Which of these three agents bears the least moral responsibility for the deaths? Which bears the most moral responsibility?
8. Would you ride on a computer-controlled subway train that did not have a human operator on board?
9. A start-up company called Medic has been developing an exciting new product for handheld devices that will revolutionize the way nurses keep track of their hospitalized patients. The device will save nurses a great deal of time doing routine paperwork, reduce their stress levels, and enable them to spend more time with their patients. Medic’s sales force has led hospital administrators to believe the product will be available next week as originally scheduled. Unfortunately, the software still contains quite a few bugs. All of the known bugs appear to be minor, but some of the planned tests have not yet been performed.Because of the fierce competition in the medical software industry, it is critical that this company be the first to market. It appears a well-established company will release a similar product in a few weeks. If its product appears first, Medic will probably go out of business. Take into consideration the perspectives of the software engineers programming the device, the sales force that has been promoting the device, the managers of Medic, the venture capitalists who bankrolled Medic, and the nurses at a hospital purchasing the device, and discuss the best course of action for Medic.

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