Optimal program for autonomous driving under Bentham-and Nash-type social welfare functions

K Kinjo, T Ebina - Procedia computer science, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to formally define and solve ethical problems of how an artificial
vehicle (AV) determines its driving behavior when there are some passengers in the AV and …

Approaching the social dilemma of autonomous vehicles with a general social welfare function

T Ebina, K Kinjo - Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider the social dilemma related to the trolley problem in ethics regarding the driving
behavior of an autonomous vehicle (AV) when there are passengers in the AV and …

Algorithm for ethical decision making at times of accidents for autonomous vehicles

MA Islam, SI Rashid - 2018 4th International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Before autonomous cars can become widespread, car manufacturers must solve an
important ethical dilemma of algorithmic morality. In time of unavoidable accidents …

Ethical systems for self-driving cars: An introduction

R Trappl - Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, a self-driving car drove at 130 km/h (80 miles/h) on a German Autobahn, even with
the German Minister for Traffic on board. All major motor companies and not only those are …

Distributive justice as an ethical principle for autonomous vehicle behavior beyond hazard scenarios

M Dietrich, TH Weisswange - Ethics and Information Technology, 2019 - Springer
Through modern driver assistant systems, algorithmic decisions already have a significant
impact on the behavior of vehicles in everyday traffic. This will become even more prominent …

A Rawlsian algorithm for autonomous vehicles

D Leben - Ethics and Information Technology, 2017 - Springer
Autonomous vehicles must be programmed with procedures for dealing with trolley-style
dilemmas where actions result in harm to either pedestrians or passengers. This paper …

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 for autonomous vehicles

N De Moura, R Chatila, K Evans… - 2020 IEEE intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address ethical dilemma situations that may arise during autonomous driving. To
evaluate how this deliberation could work, we propose a decision-making algorithm based …

[PDF][PDF] Ethics in the Design of Automated Vehicles: The AVEthics project.

E Dogan, R Chatila, S Chauvier, K Evans… - EDIA …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Automated vehicle (AV) as a social agent in a dynamic traffic environment mixed with other
road users, will encounter risk situations compelling it to make decisions in complex …

Two-stage approach to solve ethical morality problem in self-driving cars

A Chandak, S Aote, A Menghal, U Negi, S Nemani… - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
Ethical morality is one of the significant issues in self-driving cars. The paper provides a
newer approach to solve the ethical decision problems in self-driving cars until there is no …