We address the considerations of the European Commission Expert Group on the ethics of connected and automated vehicles regarding data provision in the event of collisions. While human drivers’ appropriate post-collision behavior is clearly defined, regulations for automated driving do not provide for collision detection. We agree it is important to systematically incorporate citizens’ intuitions into the discourse on the ethics of automated vehicles. Therefore, we investigate whether people expect automated vehicles to behave like humans after an accident, even if this behavior does not directly affect the consequences of the accident. We find that appropriate post-collision behavior substantially influences people’s evaluation of the underlying crash scenario. Moreover, people clearly think that automated vehicles can and should record the accident, stop at the site, and call the police. They are even willing to pay for technological features that enable post-collision behavior. Our study might begin a research program on post-collision behavior, enriching the empirically informed study of automated driving ethics that so far exclusively focuses on pre-collision behavior.

我们解决了欧盟委员会专家组关于联网和自动驾驶汽车在发生碰撞时提供数据的伦理问题的考虑。虽然明确定义了人类驾驶员的适当碰撞后行为，但自动驾驶法规并未规定碰撞检测。我们同意将公民的直觉系统地纳入有关自动驾驶汽车伦理的讨论中是很重要的。因此，我们调查人们是否期望自动驾驶汽车在事故发生后表现得像人类，即使这种行为不会直接影响事故的后果。我们发现适当的碰撞后行为会显着影响人们对潜在碰撞场景的评估。而且，人们显然认为，自动驾驶汽车可以而且应该记录事故、停在现场并报警。他们甚至愿意为支持碰撞后行为的技术功能付费。我们的研究可能会开始一项关于碰撞后行为的研究计划，丰富迄今为止专门关注碰撞前行为的自动驾驶伦理的实证研究。