Survey study reveals widespread theoretical approval for utilitarian autonomous vehicles alongside personal refusal to ride in them, suggesting mandatory self-sacrifice rules could deter adoption.
Codes of conduct in autonomous vehicles When it becomes possible to program decision-making based on moral principles into machines, will self-interest or the public good predominate? In a series of surveys, Bonnefon et al. found that even though participants approve of autonomous vehicles that might sacrifice passengers to save others, respondents would prefer not to ride in such vehicles (see the Perspective by Greene). Respondents would also not approve regulations mandating self-sacrifice, and such regulations would make them less willing to buy an autonomous vehicle. Science , this issue p. 1573 ; see also p. 1514
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