Autonomous vehicles require socio-political acceptance—an empirical and philosophical perspective on the problem of moral decision making

LT Bergmann, L Schlicht, C Meixner, P König… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autonomous vehicles, though having enormous potential, face a number of challenges. As a
computer system interacting with society on a large scale and human beings in particular …

Human decision-making biases in the moral dilemmas of autonomous vehicles

DA Frank, P Chrysochou, P Mitkidis, D Ariely - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The development of artificial intelligence has led researchers to study the ethical principles
that should guide machine behavior. The challenge in building machine morality based on …

Human decisions in moral dilemmas are largely described by utilitarianism: Virtual car driving study provides guidelines for autonomous driving vehicles

AK Faulhaber, A Dittmer, F Blind, MA Wächter… - … and engineering ethics, 2019 - Springer
Ethical thought experiments such as the trolley dilemma have been investigated extensively
in the past, showing that humans act in utilitarian ways, trying to cause as little overall …

Moral dilemmas in self-driving cars

C Lucifora, GM Grasso, P Perconti, A Plebe - Rivista internazionale di Filosofia …, 2020 - rifp.it
Autonomous driving systems promise important changes for future of transport, primarily
through the reduction of road accidents. However, ethical concerns, in particular, two central …

Risk of injury in moral dilemmas with autonomous vehicles

CM De Melo, S Marsella, J Gratch - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As autonomous machines, such as automated vehicles (AVs) and robots, become pervasive
in society, they will inevitably face moral dilemmas where they must make decisions that risk …

Exploring the human factors in moral dilemmas of autonomous vehicles

MU Shah, U Rehman, F Iqbal, H Ilahi - Personal and Ubiquitous …, 2022 - Springer
Given the widespread popularity of autonomous vehicles (AVs), researchers have been
exploring the ethical implications of AVs. Researchers believe that empirical experiments …

Self-protective and self-sacrificing preferences of pedestrians and passengers in moral dilemmas involving autonomous vehicles

MM Mayer, R Bell, A Buchner - PLoS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Upon the introduction of autonomous vehicles into daily traffic, it becomes increasingly likely
that autonomous vehicles become involved in accident scenarios in which decisions have to …

A moral decision-making study of autonomous vehicles: Expertise predicts a preference for algorithms in dilemmas

A Zhu, S Yang, Y Chen, C Xing - Personality and Individual Differences, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has identified some individual and situational factors that relate to the public's
preference for autonomous vehicles (AVs) in moral dilemmas. The present study shows that …

Autonomous vehicles and the attribution of moral responsibility

RM McManus, AM Rutchick - Social psychological and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
With the imminent advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) comes a moral dilemma: How do
people assign responsibility in the event of a fatal accident? AVs necessarily create …

Moral reasoning and automatic risk reaction during driving

C Lucifora, GM Grasso, P Perconti, A Plebe - Cognition, Technology & …, 2021 - Springer
Recent advances in autonomous vehicles promise to revolutionize the transportation
system. This perspective has led to new research on a number of open questions, such as …