Human agency has become increasingly limited in complex systems with increasingly
automated decision-making capabilities. For instance, human occupants are passengers …

People seem to hold the human driver to be primarily responsible when their partially
automated vehicle crashes, yet is this reasonable? While the driver is often required to …

Abstract Machines are empowered with ever-increasing agency and decision-making
authority to augment or even replace humans in various settings, making responsibility …

When an automated car harms someone, who is blamed by those who hear about it? Here
we asked human participants to consider hypothetical cases in which a pedestrian was …

The advent of automated and algorithmic technology requires people to consider them when
assigning responsibility for something going wrong. We focus on a focal question: who or …

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 …

Whilst public opinion towards automated vehicles is largely favourable, there are recurrent
concerns around responsibility in the event of a crash (Kyriakidis et al., 2015). There is …

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 …

Automated vehicles (AVs) have made huge strides toward large-scale deployment. Despite
this progress, AVs continue to make mistakes, some resulting in death. Although some …

We address the considerations of the European Commission Expert Group on the ethics of
connected and automated vehicles regarding data provision in the event of collisions. While …