Autonomous vehicles and moral judgments under risk

S Krügel, M Uhl - Transportation research part A: policy and practice, 2022 - Elsevier
Some criticize the data-driven study of driverless car ethics for relying on deterministic crash
scenarios where the focus should be on minimizing the occurrence of accidents instead …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Personal ethical settings for driverless cars and the utility paradox: An ethical analysis of public attitudes in UK and Japan

K Takaguchi, A Kappes, JM Yearsley, T Sawai… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Driverless cars are predicted to dramatically reduce collisions and casualties on the roads.
However, there has been controversy about how they should be programmed to respond in …

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
Autonomous vehicles represent a new class of transportation that may be qualitatively
different from existing cars. Two online experiments assessed lay perceptions of moral …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Applying ethical theories to the decision-making of self-driving vehicles: A systematic review and integration of the literature

F Poszler, M Geisslinger, J Betz, C Lütge - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-driving vehicles (SDVs)–above the SAE automation level 4–are designed to operate
without human intervention [1]. Due to the expected advantages attributed to SDVs, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Commentary: The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

R Martin, I Kusev, AJ Cooke, V Baranova… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
An autonomous vehicle (AV) car with 1 passenger (eg, the car owner) inside is traveling
within the speed limit down the road. However, unexpectedly, 10 pedestrians have …

Do automated vehicles face moral dilemmas? A plea for a political approach

J Rodríguez-Alcázar, L Bermejo-Luque… - Philosophy & …, 2021 - Springer
How should automated vehicles (AVs) react in emergency circumstances? Most research
projects and scientific literature deal with this question from a moral perspective. In …