To operate in an unpredictable environment, a vehicle with advanced driving assistance
systems, such as a robot or a drone, not only needs to register its surroundings but also to …

The prospect of automatized car traffic confronts ethics, law, and politics with novel and far-
reaching questions. It cannot be excluded that automatized cars meet with critical situations …

With the advent of autonomous vehicles society will need to confront a new set of risks
which, for the first time, includes the ability of socially embedded forms of artificial …

In this document we address the problem of autonomous navigation in dynamic unknown
environ-ments. The key of the problem is to guarantee safety for all the agents moving in the …

A growing interest in autonomous driving (AD) and intelligent vehicles (IVs) is fueled by their
promise for enhanced safety, efficiency, and economic benefits. While previous surveys …

We describe a practical path-planning algorithm that generates smooth paths for an
autonomous vehicle operating in an unknown environment, where obstacles are detected …

Current research on autonomous vehicles tends to focus on making them safer through
policies to manage innovation, and integration into existing urban and mobility systems. This …

As automation becomes more capable, the need to craft designs compatible with people
becomes more important. This is particularly true with increasingly autonomous vehicles …

In a world that appears primarily to be motivated by a worship of the false idol of profit, there
can be little doubt that the era of automated road vehicles is upon us. Indeed, such …

We motivate the desire for self-driving and explain its potential and limitations, and explore
the need for—and potential implementation of—morals, ethics, and other value systems as …