Autonomous Systems (AS) may offer significant societal benefits but will also create new types of incidents and accidents. The ability to access, explain and understand data related to failure or accidents will be a fundamental requirement for ensuring safety, liability and public trust.

Drawing on Responsible Research and Innovation principles, we analyse a particular AS – autonomous vehicles (AVs) – with three objectives:

 

1) Investigate the ethical risks and legal implications related to the collection, access and use of data.

2) Test the legal usefulness of data sets.

3) Evaluate public acceptance of data recorders (‘black boxes’) for AS

Read our project blog

“Accidents will happen” – so let’s learn from them

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An interview with Pericle Salvini

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Explanations in Autonomous Driving: A Survey

Project Team

Meet Our Project Team

Marina Jirotka

Professor of Human-Centred Computing, University of Oxford

Lead contact

Dr Pericle Salvini

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford

Former Co-Investigator

Dr Jo-Ann Pattinson

Research Fellow, University of Leeds

Co-Investigator

Carolyn Ten Holter

Doctoral Student and Research Assistant, University of Oxford
Co-Investigator

Dr Lars Kunze

Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford

Co-Investigator

Paul Luff

Professor in Organisations and Technology,  King’s College London

Co-Investigator
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