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In between were dual-driver options with a primary human driver and a secondary machine driver (much like Toyota's Guardian) or a primary machine driver and secondary human driver (like Tesla's Autopilot). These vignettes described a range of sole- or dual-driver car options, ranging from a sole human driver to a fully automated car (referred to in the vignettes as a 'machine driver').

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To test this, Awad and colleagues constructed a series of vignettes that described a shared-control car killing a pedestrian. 'Or does it reflect something psychologically deeper that may colour our responses to human-machine joint action and, in particular, when a human-machine pair jointly controls a vehicle?' Advertisement 'Was this pattern a fluke of the circumstances of the crash and press environment?' they ask.

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Based on press coverage of a 2016 Tesla Autopilot death and the killing of a pedestrian by an Uber self-driving car, it seems that people might be more inclined to heap blame heavily on the human drivers and less on the cars, Awad and his colleagues suggest. How the people who set these policies will react is anyone's guess. Understanding how people respond to the moral implications of this situation is crucial for everything from calculating the expected liability for manufacturers, to anticipating how the legal system should react to deaths in situations of shared control between driver and car. 'We are entering a delicate era of shared control between humans and machines,' write researcher Edmond Awad and his colleagues. Shared responsibility?Īlthough the broad availability of fully autonomous cars lurks over the horizon, a range of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)-from intervention during emergency maneuvers to Tesla's Autopilot suite-offload some of the responsibility for safety from the driver to the car. The authors argue that this could result in an under-regulation of the safety of shared-control vehicles. When a driver shares the blame for a pedestrian death with an automated car, how do people assign blame? A study in Nature Human Behaviour this week suggests that people may focus their ire on the human in a shared-control situation. Some of them score highly on easier tests in broad daylight, but they do not fare so well in more difficult conditions like low light. Sophisticated pedestrian detection systems, which are becoming more common in cars, aren't doing particularly well. Pedestrian deaths are on the rise overall, as cars become safer for drivers but more dangerous for everyone else.

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