Ethical considerations and moral implications of autonomous vehicles and unavoidable collisions

J Robinson, J Smyth, R Woodman… - TheoreTical issues in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
While it is widely agreed that automated and autonomous vehicles may provide safety
benefits over vehicles with lower level or no automation, due to other road users there will …

[HTML][HTML] Safety requirements vs. crashing ethically: what matters most for policies on autonomous vehicles

B Lundgren - AI & SOCIETY, 2021 - Springer
The philosophical–ethical literature and the public debate on autonomous vehicles have
been obsessed with ethical issues related to crashing. In this article, these discussions …

[HTML][HTML] Bearing the weight: A qualitative study on expert views on integrating ethics in autonomous vehicles?

SR Milford, BS Elger, D Shaw - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Elsevier
AVs are increasingly becoming present on public roads, the ethics of which have captured
the publics attention. This study represents the first ever investigation into the opinion of AV …

Four perspectives on what matters for the ethics of automated vehicles

G Keeling, K Evans, SM Thornton, G Mecacci… - … Vehicle Automation 6 6, 2019 - Springer
The ethical discussion on automated vehicles (AVs) has for the most part focused on what
morality requires in AV collisions which present moral dilemmas. This discussion has been …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Autonomous vehicles and the ethical tension between occupant and non-occupant safety

J Borenstein, J Herkert, K Miller - The Journal of …, 2020 - digitalcommons.odu.edu
Given that the creation and deployment of autonomous vehicles is likely to continue, it is
important to explore the ethical responsibilities of designers, manufacturers, operators, and …

Moving forward with autonomous systems: Ethical dilemmas

AK Taylor, S Bouazzaoui - Advances in Human Factors and Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Automation has improved transportation systems in various domains over the last several
decades. Increasing autonomy in these systems has gradually reduced the role of the …

[PDF][PDF] Ethics, safety, and autonomous vehicles

WH Widen, P Koopma, B Kuipers, M Wolf - Computer, 2021 - repository.law.miami.edu
Ethics, Safety, and Autonomous Vehicles Page 1 University of Miami Law School University of
Miami School of Law Institutional Repository Articles Faculty and Deans 12-19-2021 Ethics …

[HTML][HTML] Responsibility for crashes of autonomous vehicles: An ethical analysis

A Hevelke, J Nida-Rümelin - Science and engineering ethics, 2015 - Springer
A number of companies including Google and BMW are currently working on the
development of autonomous cars. But if fully autonomous cars are going to drive on our …

Human decisions in moral dilemmas are largely described by utilitarianism: Virtual car driving study provides guidelines for autonomous driving vehicles

AK Faulhaber, A Dittmer, F Blind, MA Wächter… - … and engineering ethics, 2019 - Springer
Ethical thought experiments such as the trolley dilemma have been investigated extensively
in the past, showing that humans act in utilitarian ways, trying to cause as little overall …