TY - JOUR A1 - Krügel, Sebastian A1 - Uhl, Matthias A1 - Balcombe, Bryn T1 - Automated vehicles and the morality of post-collision behavior JF - Ethics and Information Technology N2 - We address the considerations of the European Commission Expert Group on the ethics of connected and automated vehicles regarding data provision in the event of collisions. While human drivers’ appropriate post-collision behavior is clearly defined, regulations for automated driving do not provide for collision detection. We agree it is important to systematically incorporate citizens’ intuitions into the discourse on the ethics of automated vehicles. Therefore, we investigate whether people expect automated vehicles to behave like humans after an accident, even if this behavior does not directly affect the consequences of the accident. We find that appropriate post-collision behavior substantially influences people’s evaluation of the underlying crash scenario. Moreover, people clearly think that automated vehicles can and should record the accident, stop at the site, and call the police. They are even willing to pay for technological features that enable post-collision behavior. Our study might begin a research program on post-collision behavior, enriching the empirically informed study of automated driving ethics that so far exclusively focuses on pre-collision behavior. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09607-w KW - Post-collision behavior KW - Detection of accidents KW - Accident data KW - Trolley KW - Experiment Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09607-w UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-10987 SN - 1572-8439 VL - 23 IS - 4 SP - 691 EP - 701 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER -