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 …

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 …

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 …

In this article, we defend an approach to autonomous vehicle ethics and policy based on the
precautionary principle. We argue that a precautionary approach is warranted, given the …

Suppose a driverless car encounters a scenario where (i) harm to at least one person is
unavoidable and (ii) a choice about how to distribute harms between different persons is …

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 …

The introduction of self-driving vehicles gives rise to a large number of ethical issues that go
beyond the common, extremely narrow, focus on improbable dilemma-like scenarios. This …

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 …

Self‐driving cars hold out the promise of being much safer than regular cars. Yet they cannot
be 100% safe. Accordingly, we need to think about who should be held responsible when …

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 …