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The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

Overview of attention for article published in Science, June 2016
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Title
The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles
Published in
Science, June 2016
DOI 10.1126/science.aaf2654
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Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, Iyad Rahwan

Abstract

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils, such as running over pedestrians or sacrificing themselves and their passenger to save the pedestrians. Defining the algorithms that will help AVs make these moral decisions is a formidable challenge. We found that participants in six Amazon Mechanical Turk studies approved of utilitarian AVs (that is, AVs that sacrifice their passengers for the greater good) and would like others to buy them, but they would themselves prefer to ride in AVs that protect their passengers at all costs. The study participants disapprove of enforcing utilitarian regulations for AVs and would be less willing to buy such an AV. Accordingly, regulating for utilitarian algorithms may paradoxically increase casualties by postponing the adoption of a safer technology.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 1651 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 315 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 274 16%
Student > Bachelor 271 16%
Researcher 150 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 65 4%
Other 195 12%
Unknown 411 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 262 16%
Computer Science 230 14%
Psychology 146 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 129 8%
Social Sciences 116 7%
Other 313 19%
Unknown 485 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2500. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 January 2024.
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#3,096
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Outputs from Science
#171
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Outputs of similar age
#18
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#1
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