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 …

Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are widely employed to investigate human behavior in
dangerous situations that cannot be safely reproduced in the real world, allowing …

Ongoing debates about ethical guidelines for autonomous vehicles mostly focus on
variations of the 'Trolley Problem'. Using variations of this ethical dilemma in preference …

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 …

Automated vehicles (AVs) not only face questions of technical feasibility but also of moral
desirability. Traffic is one of the major sources of death and injury in modern society–human …

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise to make traffic safer, but their societal integration poses
ethical challenges. What behavior of AVs is morally acceptable in critical traffic situations …

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 …

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 …

A more critical evaluation of the actions of autonomous vehicles in comparison to those of
human drivers in accident scenarios may complicate the introduction of autonomous …