Ethical perspectives & legislations influence on the systemdevelopment process of autonomous vehicles

Artificial intelligence, or more commonly known as “AI”, is a growing phenomenon that gets more and more integrated in today’s technology. Since AI is starting to become a reality in the automotive industry it’s important to examine how these vehicles could be implemented both ethically and morally with the support from the general population. The current legislation in Sweden has not taken self driving vehicles in consideration, a reason for this being that AI driven cars has not yet been implemented in a large scale. Through a quantitative study the general public's acceptance and attitude towards the phenomenon has been researched. The study has also gathered data regarding who should be held accountable for accidents surrounding different scenarios with autonomous vehicles. After a statistical review of the survey the authors could conclude that if automated cars were to be implemented in Sweden to a larger extent there should also be a change within the legislation where automated cars are taken into consideration to better match the public eye. Through analysis of the study the authors concluded that a change in the current legislation concerning autonomous cars could become reality which would mean that the development process needs to be supplemented in order to assure a high level of safety