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  • AI Ethics and Autonomous Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Transportation Safety

Background:

  • Autonomous vehicle (AV) ethical decision-making is crucial for public acceptance and technology adoption.
  • Current AV algorithms lack integration of public opinion in unavoidable ethical dilemmas.
  • Public trust in AVs is contingent on their perceived ethical rationality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an ethical decision-making algorithm framework for autonomous vehicles grounded in public moral preferences.
  • To model societal moral consensus into machine-executable language for AVs.
  • To enhance the ethical alignment of AVs with human values and improve safety.

Main Methods:

  • Identified five core moral preferences: reducing overall injury, reducing individual injury, ensuring equal care, protecting the compliant, and avoiding active harm.
  • Conducted a large-scale online survey to quantify road user injury severity and model moral preferences.
  • Developed and validated an ethical decision-making algorithm using 4,860 diverse traffic scenarios.

Main Results:

  • The proposed algorithm closely aligned AV decisions with identified public moral preferences.
  • Demonstrated significant reductions in average individual injury severity (52%), injury severity standard deviation (15%), and injury severity for compliers (20%) and non-occupiers (24%) compared to a baseline.
  • The framework showed high scalability and alignment with societal ethical considerations.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating public moral views into AV ethical algorithms is feasible and effective.
  • The developed framework offers a scalable solution to improve AV ethical decision-making and public acceptance.
  • This research provides a foundation for culturally adaptable AV ethical frameworks, facilitating technology promotion.