You have developed an operating system for an in-car system. Like most phone operating systems, you
have an online store that people can use to download apps for entertainment and to actually add features
to your car such as engine monitoring and remote locking and turning the car on. The team is trying to
decide whether to allow only downloaded apps to be installed on the car or to also allow apps to be “side
loaded” by downloading them on to a USB drive and then plugging the USB drive into the car to instail the
app.
The team has a good handle on the technical issues for the two choices, but are trying to think about the
ethical issues.
Can you identify at least two potential ethical problems with either the above design choices?
In a one-page memo to the design team, please identify at least two potential ethical problems with either
of the above design choices. In your memo, be sure to identify any affected parties, the perspectives of
those affected parties, and any potential ethical consequences. Lastly, be sure to include at least two
references to support your response. Please include URLs to the references. A reference can be a blog,
article, paper, anything that you are using to justify your thoughts. Your team would be willing to consider
your ideas more if you have something like "This wired article points out …" than if you have something like
"lL asked my brother and he said …"
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