The ethics of accident-algorithms for self-driving cars: An applied trolley problem?

S Nyholm, J Smids - Ethical theory and moral practice, 2016 - Springer
Self-driving cars hold out the promise of being safer than manually driven cars. Yet they
cannot be a 100% safe. Collisions are sometimes unavoidable. So self-driving cars need to …

The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: A roadmap, I

S Nyholm - Philosophy Compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐driving cars hold out the promise of being much safer than regular cars. Yet they cannot
be 100% safe. Accordingly, they need to be programmed for how to deal with crash …

The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: a roadmap, II

S Nyholm - Philosophy Compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐driving cars hold out the promise of being much safer than regular cars. Yet they cannot
be 100% safe. Accordingly, we need to think about who should be held responsible when …

Self-driving vehicles—an ethical overview

SO Hansson, MÅ Belin, B Lundgren - Philosophy & Technology, 2021 - Springer
The introduction of self-driving vehicles gives rise to a large number of ethical issues that go
beyond the common, extremely narrow, focus on improbable dilemma-like scenarios. This …

Autonomous cars: in favor of a mandatory ethics setting

J Gogoll, JF Müller - Science and engineering ethics, 2017 - Springer
The recent progress in the development of autonomous cars has seen ethical questions
come to the forefront. In particular, life and death decisions regarding the behavior of self …

Our bodies in the trolley's path, or why self-driving cars must* not* be programmed to kill

N JafariNaimi - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The discourse around self-driving cars has been dominated by an emphasis on their
potential to reduce the number of accidents. At the same time, proponents acknowledge that …

Away from trolley problems and toward risk management

NJ Goodall - Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
As automated vehicles receive more attention from the media, there has been an equivalent
increase in the coverage of the ethical choices a vehicle may be forced to make in certain …

Never mind the trolley: The ethics of autonomous vehicles in mundane situations

J Himmelreich - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018 - Springer
Trolley cases are widely considered central to the ethics of autonomous vehicles. We
caution against this by identifying four problems.(1) Trolley cases, given technical limitations …

Self-driving cars in dilemmatic situations: An approach based on the theory of justification in criminal law

I Coca-Vila - Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2018 - Springer
This article puts forward solutions to some of the ethical and legal dilemmas posed in the
current discussion on how to program crash algorithms in autonomous or self-driving cars …

[PDF][PDF] Why ethics matters for autonomous cars

P Lin - Autonomous driving: Technical, legal and social …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
To start, let me offer a simple scenario that illustrates the need for ethics in autonomous cars.
Imagine in some distant future, your autonomous car encounters this terrible choice: it must …