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Our study aims at progressing the assessment of the moral behaviour of human drivers. It is a felicitous coincidence that psychological and philosophical research into human morality has been dominated by thought experiments, resembling vehicles facing emergency situations. These thought experiments involve a running trolley, and have been used to contrast different moral principles, especially deontology versus utilitarianism. We designed an ecologically valid trolley-like dilemma with the help of virtual reality, aimed to understand the moral behavior of human subjects when facing a car accident situation. We report and comment on early results of our first tests.
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Grasso, G.M., Lucifora, C., Perconti, P., Plebe, A. (2020). Integrating Human Acceptable Morality in Autonomous Vehicles. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Vergnano, A., Leali, F., Taiar, R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2020. IHSI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_7
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