Rules of conduct for autonomous vehicles

Marin Sikkenk; Jacques Terken

doi:10.1145/2799250.2799270

Rules of conduct for autonomous vehicles

Marin Sikkenk
, Jacques Terken

Industrial Design

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Abstract

When developing autonomous vehicles, we should not only focus on technology development but also think about what behaviour to program into such vehicles. This paper addresses the question of whether we should enable users to influence the politeness of autonomous vehicles. A survey was conducted with 58 participants to probe people's willingness to display polite traffic behaviour. Scenarios were shown to people in which the weather conditions and the vulnerability of road users were manipulated, and people were asked to indicate whether they would give right of way or not. It was found that the willingness to give right of way was influenced by the weather conditions, the vulnerability of road users and the driving style of the participants. We conclude that traffic politeness varies across people and situations, and that this finding raises concerns for a development where autonomous vehicles are equipped with a standard uniform behaviour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive VehicularApplications, AutomotiveUI 2015
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	19-22
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450337366
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2799250.2799270
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015
Event	7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2015 - Nottingham, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Sept 2015 → 3 Sept 2015 https://www.auto-ui.org/15/

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Conference	7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Nottingham
Period	1/09/15 → 3/09/15
Other	AutomotiveUI '15
Internet address	https://www.auto-ui.org/15/

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Keywords

autonomous driving
ethics
politeness
user needs

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Sikkenk, M & Terken, J 2015, Rules of conduct for autonomous vehicles. in Adjunct Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive VehicularApplications, AutomotiveUI 2015. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., pp. 19-22, 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2015, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 1/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2799250.2799270

Rules of conduct for autonomous vehicles. / Sikkenk, Marin; Terken, Jacques.
Adjunct Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive VehicularApplications, AutomotiveUI 2015. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2015. p. 19-22.

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