Human decisions in moral dilemmas are largely described by utilitarianism: Virtual car driving study provides guidelines for autonomous driving vehicles

AK Faulhaber, A Dittmer, F Blind, MA Wächter… - … and engineering ethics, 2019 - Springer
Ethical thought experiments such as the trolley dilemma have been investigated extensively
in the past, showing that humans act in utilitarian ways, trying to cause as little overall …

Human decision-making biases in the moral dilemmas of autonomous vehicles

DA Frank, P Chrysochou, P Mitkidis, D Ariely - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The development of artificial intelligence has led researchers to study the ethical principles
that should guide machine behavior. The challenge in building machine morality based on …

Autonomous vehicles require socio-political acceptance—an empirical and philosophical perspective on the problem of moral decision making

LT Bergmann, L Schlicht, C Meixner, P König… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autonomous vehicles, though having enormous potential, face a number of challenges. As a
computer system interacting with society on a large scale and human beings in particular …

Ethical decision making in autonomous vehicles: The AV ethics project

K Evans, N de Moura, S Chauvier, R Chatila… - … and engineering ethics, 2020 - Springer
The ethics of autonomous vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent
years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which human …

Moral judgements on the actions of self-driving cars and human drivers in dilemma situations from different perspectives

N Kallioinen, M Pershina, J Zeiser… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Self-driving cars have the potential to greatly improve public safety. However, their
introduction onto public roads must overcome both ethical and technical challenges. To …

A deeper look at autonomous vehicle ethics: an integrative ethical decision-making framework to explain moral pluralism

J Rhim, JH Lee, M Chen, A Lim - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The autonomous vehicle (AV) is one of the first commercialized AI-embedded robots to
make autonomous decisions. Despite technological advancements, unavoidable AV …

Toward implementing the ADC model of moral judgment in autonomous vehicles

V Dubljević - Science and Engineering Ethics, 2020 - Springer
Autonomous vehicles (AVs)—and accidents they are involved in—attest to the urgent need
to consider the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). The question dominating the discussion so …

The dark side of the 'Moral Machine'and the fallacy of computational ethical decision-making for autonomous vehicles

H Etienne - Law, Innovation and Technology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reveals the dangers of the Moral Machine experiment, alerting against both its
uses for normative ends, and the whole approach it is built upon to address ethical issues. It …

Autonomous vehicles and avoiding the trolley (dilemma): vehicle perception, classification, and the challenges of framing decision ethics

M Cunneen, M Mullins, F Murphy… - Cybernetics and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article aims to introduce a degree of technological and ethical realism to the framing of
autonomous vehicle perception and decisionality. The objective is to move the socioethical …

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 …