Liability issues concerning self-driving vehicles

MF Lohmann - European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2016 - cambridge.org
This article deals with the civil liability issues that arise when self-driving vehicles are
admitted to our streets. Firstly, it is explained why strict liability regimes for the vehicle holder …

The trolley, the bull bar, and why engineers should care about the ethics of autonomous cars [point of view]

JF Bonnefon, A Shariff, I Rahwan - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Everyone agrees that autonomous cars ought to save lives. Even if the cars do not live up to
the most optimistic estimates of eliminating 90% of traffic fatalities [1], eliminating at least …

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 …

Review and analysis of the importance of autonomous vehicles liability: a systematic literature review

M Alawadhi, J Almazrouie, M Kamil… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has led to a shift in liability from driver to AV.
This paper is a systematic review of the literature on liability with AVs. Articles were selected …

How can we know a self-driving car is safe?

J Stilgoe - Ethics and Information Technology, 2021 - Springer
Self-driving cars promise solutions to some of the hazards of human driving but there are
important questions about the safety of these new technologies. This paper takes a …

Legal issues in automated vehicles: critically considering the potential role of consent and interactive digital interfaces

JA Pattinson, H Chen, S Basu - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2020 - nature.com
Some of the first 'automated'vehicles to be deployed on our roads will require a system of
shared driving with a human driver. While this creates technical and operational challenges …

Responsibility and the moral phenomenology of using self-driving cars

M Coeckelbergh - Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores how the phenomenology of using self-driving cars influences conditions
for exercising and ascribing responsibility. First, a working account of responsibility is …

Sue my car not me: Products liability and accidents involving autonomous vehicles

JK Gurney - U. Ill. JL Tech. & Pol'y, 2013 - HeinOnline
Autonomous vehicles will revolutionize society in the near future. Computers, however, are
not perfect, and accidents will occur while the vehicle is in autonomous mode. This Article …

Why trolley problems matter for the ethics of automated vehicles

G Keeling - Science and engineering ethics, 2020 - Springer
This paper argues against the view that trolley cases are of little or no relevance to the ethics
of automated vehicles. Four arguments for this view are outlined and rejected: the Not Going …

Ethical issues in focus by the autonomous vehicles industry

A Martinho, N Herber, M Kroesen, C Chorus - Transport reviews, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The onset of autonomous driving has provided fertile ground for discussions about ethics in
recent years. These discussions are heavily documented in the scientific literature and have …