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 …

Plenty of blame to go around: Attributions of responsibility in a fatal autonomous vehicle accident

CJ Copp, JJ Cabell, M Kemmelmeier - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Autonomous vehicles (AV) promise a reduction in the number of deadly traffic accidents.
However, should accidents occur, attributions of responsibility are complicated by the fact …

Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles

P Liu, M Du, T Li - Ethics and information technology, 2021 - Springer
A human driver and an automated driving system (ADS) might share control of automated
vehicles (AVs) in the near future. This raises many concerns associated with the assignment …

Blame it on the self-driving car: how autonomous vehicles can alter consumer morality

T Gill - Journal of Consumer Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to soon replace human drivers and promise
substantial benefits to society. Yet, consumers remain skeptical about handing over control …

A generalized framework for moral dilemmas involving autonomous vehicles: a commentary on gill

TP Novak - Journal of Consumer Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
By using scenarios based on moral dilemmas, found that when consumers are riding in an
autonomous vehicle (AV), they are more willing to harm a pedestrian than when they …

[HTML][HTML] Guilt without fault: Accidental agency in the era of autonomous vehicles

F Aguiar, IR Hannikainen, P Aguilar - Science and engineering ethics, 2022 - Springer
The control principle implies that people should not feel guilt for outcomes beyond their
control. Yet, the so-called 'agent and observer puzzles' in philosophy demonstrate that …

Autonomous morals: Inferences of mind predict acceptance of AI behavior in sacrificial moral dilemmas

AD Young, AE Monroe - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Three studies compared people's judgments of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and humans
faced with a moral dilemma. Study 1 showed that, for identical decisions, AVs were judged …

From trolley to autonomous vehicle: Perceptions of responsibility and moral norms in traffic accidents with self-driving cars

J Li, X Zhao, MJ Cho, W Ju, BF Malle - 2016 - sae.org
Autonomous vehicles represent a new class of transportation that may be qualitatively
different from existing cars. Two online experiments assessed lay perceptions of moral …

Moral machines: perception of moral judgment made by machines

E Awad - 2017 - dspace.mit.edu
While technological development of vehicular autonomy has been progressing rapidly, a
parallel discussion has emerged with regard to the moral implications of a future wherein …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …