As the act of driving becomes increasingly automated, vehicles will encounter situations
where different objectives of safety, mobility, and legality will come into conflict. These …

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 …

The imminent deployment of autonomous vehicles requires algorithms capable of making
moral decisions in relevant traffic situations. Some scholars in the ethics of autonomous …

Ongoing debates about ethical guidelines for autonomous vehicles mostly focus on
variations of the 'Trolley Problem'. Using variations of this ethical dilemma in preference …

No matter how safe automated driving will be in the future, there will remain situations where
an accident is unavoidable and vehicles will have to decide between options that all …

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 …

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 …

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to save tens of thousands of lives, but legal
and social barriers may delay or even deter manufacturers from offering fully automated …

" A runaway trolley is speeding down a track" So begins what is perhaps the most fecund
thought experiment of the past several decades since its invention by Philippa Foot. Since …

Unlike hypothetical trolley problem studies and an ongoing ethical dilemma with
autonomous vehicles, road users can face similar ethical dilemmas in real life. Swerving a …