Accidents involving autonomous vehicles (AVs) raise difficult ethical dilemmas and legal
issues. It has been argued that self-driving cars should be programmed to kill, that is, they …

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 …

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 …

Dilemma situations involving the choice of which human life to save in the case of
unavoidable accidents are expected to arise only rarely in the context of autonomous …

A number of companies including Google and BMW are currently working on the
development of autonomous cars. But if fully autonomous cars are going to drive on our …

For the first time in history, automated vehicles (AVs) are being deployed in populated
environments. This unprecedented transformation of our everyday lives demands a …

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 …

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 …

How should autonomous vehicles (aka self-driving cars) be programmed to behave in the
event of an unavoidable accident in which the only choice open is one between causing …

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 …