Cooperation for Ethical Autonomous Driving

The success in the adoption of autonomous vehicles is dependent on their ability to solve rarely occurring safety-critical corner cases. Vehicular communications (V2X) aim at improving safety and efficiency of autonomous driving by adding the capability of explicit inter-vehicular information exchange. We argue that V2X enables another important function, namely the support of ethical driving decisions. In this article, we explain our envisioned methodology of an ethical cooperative driving interaction protocol design (including what to communicate and how to act based on the received information). Cooperative manoeuvring empowered by the ethical V2X is a new research direction we promote in the autonomous driving research agenda.