 Personality facets and ethics positions as directives for self-driving vehiclesBrent Smith Technology in Society, 2019, vol. 57, issue C, 115-124 Abstract: This article provides an exploration into how people of today would prefer the innovative self-driving vehicles (SDVs) of tomorrow to reconcile life and death decisions in accidents involving passengers and pedestrians. While SDVs are expected to occupy public roads and highways within several years, many stakeholders—drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, regulators, automakers, and insurers among them—have not achieved a full understanding of how SDVs should function in everyday traffic situations. Using logistic regression (n = 461), the author looks at how individuals' personality facets (HEXACO: honesty-humility; conscientiousness) and ethics positions (idealism; relativism) might relate to their directives for what SDVs should do/decide in the context of four established trolley problem vignettes. In all vignettes, any action/decision will result in zero-sum outcomes of survival and fatality for the parties involved (e.g., passenger, pedestrians). In essence, the results offer insights into how these underexplored human elements might help inform society's rules of the road and SDVs' moral algorithms in the future. Keywords: Self-driving vehicles; Personality facets; Ethics positions; Algorithms; Logistic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:57:y:2019:i:c:p:115-124 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2018.12.006 Access Statistics for this article Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier |
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