Autonomous vehicles and the attribution of moral responsibility

RM McManus, AM Rutchick - Social psychological and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… their future moral decision-making abilities. How will one’s decision to outsource their
moral agency affect judgments of responsibility? The current article investigates attributions of …

Blame it on the self-driving car: how autonomous vehicles can alter consumer morality

T Gill - Journal of Consumer Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… AV as compared to self as the decision agent in a regular car. This shift in moral judgments
was driven by the attribution of responsibility to the AV and was observed for both severe and …

[HTML][HTML] Not in control, but liable? attributing human responsibility for fully automated vehicle accidents

S Zhai, L Wang, P Liu - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
responsibility for accidents involving fully automated cars through three studies with seven
experiments (N = 2668). We compared the responsibility … with moral responsibility through the …

Who is to blame for crashes involving autonomous vehicles? Exploring blame attribution across the road transport system

E Pöllänen, GJM Read, BR Lane, J Thompson… - Ergonomics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
attribution for semi-autonomous vehicles. … responsibility in crashes involving semi-autonomous
vehicles. Thus, the pattern of blame attribution in crashes with semi-autonomous vehicles

Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles

P Liu, M Du, T Li - Ethics and information technology, 2021 - Springer
… human–machine difference in responsibility attribution. This … , they are held less morally
responsible for unwanted outcomes. … , responsibility attribution in an era of automated driving is a …

Plenty of blame to go around: Attributions of responsibility in a fatal autonomous vehicle accident

CJ Copp, JJ Cabell, M Kemmelmeier - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
… operators might believe that this absolves them from any moral responsibility to take control
of the vehicle. However, an observer who is not involved in the immediate operation of the …

From trolley to autonomous vehicle: Perceptions of responsibility and moral norms in traffic accidents with self-driving cars

J Li, X Zhao, MJ Cho, W Ju, BF Malle - 2016 - sae.org
… Participants then answered questions about responsibility attribution in an automobile
incident (“How much are each of the following parties to blame for the traffic accident?”; 10-point …

Moral Responsibility Attribution Dilemma of Autonomous Vehicles and Its Resolution

M HU, Y BAI - Journal of Northeastern University (Social Science) - xuebao.neu.edu.cn
… combination manifested in autonomous vehicles, which has greatly challenged the traditional
viewpoint of moral responsibility.To handle this dilemma,the traditional viewpoint of moral

[HTML][HTML] Guilt without fault: Accidental agency in the era of autonomous vehicles

F Aguiar, IR Hannikainen, P Aguilar - Science and engineering ethics, 2022 - Springer
… Are passengers in an AV to be held morally responsible in the … -autonomous vehicles. When
a human driver and a semi-… guilt and responsibility attributions in the context of autonomous

[HTML][HTML] Responsibility for crashes of autonomous vehicles: An ethical analysis

A Hevelke, J Nida-Rümelin - Science and engineering ethics, 2015 - Springer
… the autonomous vehicle has no duty (and possibly no way) of interfering, but still be considered
morally responsible … alternative for the attribution of responsibility in case of accidents of …