The moral challenges of driverless cars
Abstract
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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It may take more than 30 seconds-and will at minimum take 2 seconds-for a human being to regain situational awareness when required to do so.
“It may take more than 30 seconds - and will at minimum take 2 seconds - for a human being to regain situational awareness when required to do so”
From When human beings are like drunk robots: Driverless vehicles, ethics, and the future of transport (2017) · cites this paper as Kirkpatrick, 2015, p. 20
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- Authors
- Kirkpatrick, K.
- Affiliations
- Lynbrook, NY
- Corresponding author
- Kirkpatrick, Keith
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2015-07-23
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 19-20
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W1191509362
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 13.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Keywords
- autonomous vehicles, ethical dilemmas, trolley problem, decision-making, ethics of technology, algorithmic decision-making
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