Autonomous driving ethics: From trolley problem to ethics of risk

M Geisslinger, F Poszler, J Betz, C Lütge… - Philosophy & …, 2021 - Springer
In 2017, the German ethics commission for automated and connected driving released 20
ethical guidelines for autonomous vehicles. It is now up to the research and industrial …

An ethical trajectory planning algorithm for autonomous vehicles

M Geisslinger, F Poszler, M Lienkamp - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023 - nature.com
With the rise of artificial intelligence and automation, moral decisions that were formerly the
preserve of humans are being put into the hands of algorithms. In autonomous driving, a …

Ethical decision making in autonomous vehicles: The AV ethics project

K Evans, N de Moura, S Chauvier, R Chatila… - … and engineering ethics, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Never mind the trolley: The ethics of autonomous vehicles in mundane situations

J Himmelreich - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018 - Springer
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 German ethics code for automated and connected driving

C Luetge - Philosophy & Technology, 2017 - Springer
The ethics of autonomous cars and automated driving have been a subject of discussion in
research for a number of years (cf. Lin 2015; Goodall in Transportation Research Record …

Maximum acceptable risk as criterion for decision-making in autonomous vehicle trajectory planning

M Geisslinger, R Trauth, G Kaljavesi… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles are being developed to make road traffic safer in the future. The time
when autonomous vehicles are actually safe enough to be used in real traffic is a current …

Ethical decision making in autonomous vehicles: Challenges and research progress

H Wang, A Khajepour, D Cao… - IEEE Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

The ethics of accident-algorithms for self-driving cars: An applied trolley problem?

S Nyholm, J Smids - Ethical theory and moral practice, 2016 - Springer
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 …

The Ethical Knob: ethically-customisable automated vehicles and the law

G Contissa, F Lagioia, G Sartor - Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2017 - Springer
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Why ethics matters for autonomous cars

P Lin - Autonomous driving: Technical, legal and social …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
To start, let me offer a simple scenario that illustrates the need for ethics in autonomous cars.
Imagine in some distant future, your autonomous car encounters this terrible choice: it must …