Not only do automated vehicles need to meet specifications for technical performance, they
also need to satisfy the societal expectations for behavior in traffic with humans. Societal …

Ethical issues remain a significant concern for future large-scale deployment of autonomous
vehicles. Although machine ethics have been developed for a few decades, ethical decision …

Traffic engineers, vehicle manufacturers, technology groups, and government agencies are
anticipating and preparing for the emergence of fully automated vehicles into the American …

Road vehicle travel at a reasonable speed involves some risk, even when using computer-
controlled driving with failure-free hardware and perfect sensing. A fully-automated vehicle …

The ethics of autonomous vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent
years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which human …

In this paper, we explore and describe what is needed to allow connected and automated
vehicles (CAVs) to break traffic rules in order to minimise road safety risk and to operate with …

Self-driving vehicles (SDVs)–above the SAE automation level 4–are designed to operate
without human intervention [1]. Due to the expected advantages attributed to SDVs, such as …

Enabling autonomous systems to comply with an ethical theory is critical given their
accelerating deployment in domains that impact society. While many ethical theories have …

Automated vehicles have received much attention recently, particularly the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency Urban Challenge vehicles, Google's self-driving cars …

As agents moving through an environment that includes a range of other road users–from
pedestrians and cyclists to other human or automated drivers–automated vehicles …