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When an autonomous vehicle crashes or has an accident of some sort – who is responsible, and to what degree? Consider the following story:

Alice buys an autonomous vehicle from Bob, who sells them. The autonomous vehicle has different settings, some more aggressive (where the autonomous vehicle drives faster and brakes harder), and some less. Alice sets the autonomous vehicle to its most aggressive setting. One night on a dark and wet road, Alice hits a pedestrian, Carlos, who was jaywalking. Carlos is badly hurt.
How should we divide up the responsibility for Carlos’ injury? Here are some immediate suspects: Alice, since she was the owner of the autonomous vehicle, and was using it at the time of the accident; Carlos, who was in the road when he shouldn’t have been; Bob, who sold Alice a car that had the aggressive setting(s).
Perhaps there are some other possible responsible parties as well. For example, we might consider the state (the government) that allows the autonomous vehicle on the roads, to be partly responsible. Or we might think that the autonomous vehicle manufacturers are partly responsible, in that they made the autonomous vehicle with the aggressive settings. Or we might think that the autonomous vehicle itself is partly responsible, since it is somewhat autonomous. Or we might think that the accident was a freak occurrence that no-one is responsible for.

In a blog post of 300-400 words, consider who the parties responsible for Carlos’ injuries are, and why they are so responsible. Given your assessment, what advice might you give to the manufacturers, owners or regulators of AVs to help address these types of issues?




I think that Alice and automobile manufacturers have great responsibility. Also partly responsible are Carlos, Bob and the government.
In this story, it is considered that a self-sustaining vehicle of level 2 partial automation was used instead of fully automated level 5 because Bob sets the environment.
In the case of partial automation, the driver is always aware that driving is necessary. For that reason, Alice was missing because she needed awareness that people might possibly jump out.
The automobile manufacturer should have devised measures to prevent crashes by disting vishing people from obstales. Tests are not enough. Also, when Bob sold the AV, he should teach the driver the settings.
Although Carlos is a victim, crossing without following the rules of the road makes him responsible because it can be considered as one of the causes.
Bob should explain the level of automatic driving when selling.
The government should make standards when manufacturing and selling autonomous vehicles.

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