In this paper, I will argue that automated vehicles should not swerve to avoid a person or
vehicle in its path, unless they can do so without imposing risks onto others. I will argue that …

Often when anyone hears about the ethics of autonomous cars the first thing to enter the
conversation is “the Trolley Problem.” The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment where …

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 …

" 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 …

Crashes involving self-driving cars at least superficially resemble trolley dilemmas. This
article discusses what lessons machine ethicists working on the ethics of self-driving cars …

The prospective introduction of autonomous cars into public traffic raises the question of how
such systems should behave when an accident is inevitable. Due to concerns with self …

In 2021, Germany passed the first law worldwide that regulates dilemma situations with
autonomous cars. Against this background, this article investigates the permissibility of trade …

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 …

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 …

The recent progress in the development of autonomous cars has seen ethical questions
come to the forefront. In particular, life and death decisions regarding the behavior of self …