From public preferences to ethical policy

J Savulescu, G Kahane, C Gyngell - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Studies have provided rich data on global preferences for how autonomous vehicles should
act in collisions. We describe a framework for incorporating such preferences in policy …

Collective reflective equilibrium in practice (CREP) and controversial novel technologies

J Savulescu, C Gyngell, G Kahane - Bioethics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate how data about public preferences may be used to inform policy
around the use of controversial novel technologies, using public preferences about …

Trolleys, crashes, and perception—a survey on how current autonomous vehicles debates invoke problematic expectations

S Tolmeijer, V Arpatzoglou, L Rossetto, A Bernstein - AI and Ethics, 2024 - Springer
Ongoing debates about ethical guidelines for autonomous vehicles mostly focus on
variations of the 'Trolley Problem'. Using variations of this ethical dilemma in preference …

A moral decision-making study of autonomous vehicles: Expertise predicts a preference for algorithms in dilemmas

A Zhu, S Yang, Y Chen, C Xing - Personality and Individual Differences, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has identified some individual and situational factors that relate to the public's
preference for autonomous vehicles (AVs) in moral dilemmas. The present study shows that …

Reply to: Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles

E Awad, S Dsouza, R Kim, J Schulz, J Henrich… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
How should self-driving cars make decisions when human lives hang in the balance? The
Moral Machine experiment 1 (MME) suggests that people want autonomous vehicles (AVs) …

How should autonomous cars drive? A preference for defaults in moral judgments under risk and uncertainty

B Meder, N Fleischhut, NC Krumnau… - Risk …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise to make traffic safer, but their societal integration poses
ethical challenges. What behavior of AVs is morally acceptable in critical traffic situations …

Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles

YE Bigman, K Gray - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
How should self-driving cars make decisions when human lives hang in the balance? The
Moral Machine experiment 1 (MME) suggests that people want autonomous vehicles (AVs) …

Self-protective and self-sacrificing preferences of pedestrians and passengers in moral dilemmas involving autonomous vehicles

MM Mayer, R Bell, A Buchner - PLoS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Upon the introduction of autonomous vehicles into daily traffic, it becomes increasingly likely
that autonomous vehicles become involved in accident scenarios in which decisions have to …

Safety requirements vs. crashing ethically: what matters most for policies on autonomous vehicles

B Lundgren - Ai & Society, 2021 - Springer
The philosophical–ethical literature and the public debate on autonomous vehicles have
been obsessed with ethical issues related to crashing. In this article, these discussions …

The risk ethics of autonomous vehicles: an empirical approach

S Krügel, M Uhl - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
How would people distribute risks of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in everyday road traffic?
The rich literature on the ethics of autonomous vehicles (AVs) revolves around moral …