When a semi-autonomous car crashes and harms someone, how are blame and causal
responsibility distributed across the human and machine drivers? In this article, we consider …

Autonomous vehicles (AV) promise a reduction in the number of deadly traffic accidents.
However, should accidents occur, attributions of responsibility are complicated by the fact …

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

Who is to blame when autonomous vehicles are involved in accidents? We report findings
from an online study in which the attribution of blame and trust were measured from 206 …

Liability attribution for crashes involving automated vehicles (AVs), if applied improperly, is a
factor which can potentially hinder acceptance. The present study investigated the impact of …

The rapid deployment of semi-autonomous systems (ie, systems requiring human
monitoring such as Uber AVs) poses ethical challenges when these systems face morally …

This study tests how individuals attribute responsibility to an artificial intelligent (AI) agent or
a human agent based on their involvement in a negative or positive event. In an online …

Road accidents involving autonomous vehicles (AVs) will not only introduce legal
challenges over liability distribution but also generally diminish the public trust that may …

As vehicle automation capabilities increase, driving control shifts from the human to the
vehicle system. However, concerns arise regarding responsibility following critical events …

AI-driven vehicles and other artificial intelligence (AI) systems may cause serious injury to
people while operating independently. Besides vehicles progress may be seen in the use of …