This article provides an exploration into how people of today would prefer the innovative self-
driving vehicles (SDVs) of tomorrow to reconcile life and death decisions in accidents
involving passengers and pedestrians. While SDVs are expected to occupy public roads
and highways within several years, many stakeholders—drivers, passengers, pedestrians,
cyclists, regulators, automakers, and insurers among them—have not achieved a full
understanding of how SDVs should function in everyday traffic situations. Using logistic …