Should it stay, or swerve? Trading off lives in dilemma situations involving autonomous cars

Artikel

Using a representative survey with 1317 individuals and 12,815 moral decisions, we elicit Swedish citizens' preferences on how algorithms for self-driving cars should be programmed in cases of unavoidable harm to humans. Participants' choices in different dilemma situations (treatments) show that, at the margin, the average respondent values the lives of passengers and pedestrians equally when both groups are homogeneous and no group is to blame for the dilemma. In comparison, the respondent values the lives of passengers more when the pedestrians violate a social norm, and less when the pedestrians are children. Furthermore, we explain why the average respondent in the control treatment needs to be compensated with two to six passengers spared in order to sacrifice the first pedestrian, even though she values the lives of passengers and pedestrians equally at the margin. We conclude that respondents' choices are highly contextual and consider the age of the persons involved and whether these persons have complied with social norms.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Health Economics ; ISSN: 1099-1050 ; Volume: 33 ; Year: 2024 ; Issue: 5 ; Pages: 929-951 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: choice experiments ; ethical preferences ; random utility model ; relative values of life ; robot cars ; self‐driving cars

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Habla, Wolfgang ; Kataria, Mitesh ; Martinsson, Peter ; Roeder, Kerstin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Wiley
• (wo): Hoboken, NJ
• (wann): 2024

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1002/hec.4802
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ