Public perception on the responsibility for incidents involving autonomous vehicles
| Sieuwert van Otterloo |
Artificial Intelligence
https://doi.org/10.54822/QBYL2425
This paper has been published in the “Computer and Society Research Journal“, a free to publish, open access journal for socially relevant computer science research.
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Abstract
We conducted a survey to investigate the public perception of the blame for incidents where autonomous vehicles (AVs) make poor decisions when faced with challenging road infrastructure. Respondents overwhelmingly blamed the vehicle for the incident, with the second most common liable party being the driver. The road owner received only a small part of the blame. Based on our survey results, the public feels that AVs should be programmed to handle road infrastructure in its current state, rather than expecting infrastructure to be adapted for the needs of autonomous vehicles. Respondents were also asked how safe they consider AVs to be. Very few respondents considered AVs to be safe currently, although that may be because they had just watched videos of incidents involving AVs. Despite saying that they feel AVs to be unsafe, the majority would use AV features in at least some circumstances.
We showed participants the following video fragments during the survey:
Case 3 – unmarked intersection
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@article{Rutte2021,
title={Public perception on the responsibility for incidents involving autonomous vehicles},
author={Le Rutte, W. A. and Atkins, S. and van Otterloo, S.},
journal={Computers and Society Research Journal},
number={2},
year={2021},
doi={\url{https://doi.org/10.54822/QBYL2425}}
}
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Le Rutte, Atkins and van Otterloo, 2021. Public perception on the responsibility for incidents involving autonomous vehicles, Computers and Society Research Journal (2021), 2, https://doi.org/10.54822/QBYL2425
Dr. Sieuwert van Otterloo is a court-certified IT expert with interests in agile, security, software research and IT-contracts.