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 …

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 …

The robotics revolution has given rise to an important question: Who should be responsible
for harm caused by robots? Because society cannot meaningfully hold robots accountable …

A current challenge in the development of autonomous vehicles is programming the ethics
of their behavior. One way to explore ethical issues of safety and agency when an …

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 …

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 …

This chapter describes what autonomous vehicles are and how they work. We then discuss
the associated risks and benefits not only from an ethical perspective, but also from a legal …

In this chapter I first briefly present cases that are standardly considered “Trolley Problem”
Cases along with standard moral judgments about permissible conduct in these cases. Next …

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 …

Autonomous vehicles are now reaching the statistical mileage that human drivers on
average cause a fatality,'and have reportedly killed a pedestrian on public roads. 2 While …