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Should AI be allowed to break the law? Public acceptance and tolerance of discretionary actions performed by autonomous vehicles in response to situations varying by degree of acuteness

Zhang, Qiyuan, Marcinkiewicz, Victoria, Bowen, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5856-0225, Kozlowski, Theodor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9250-5819, Inatani, Tatsuhiko, Ueda, Yoshiyuki, Katsuno, Hirofumi, Asada, Minoru and Morgan, Phillip L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5672-0758 2026. Should AI be allowed to break the law? Public acceptance and tolerance of discretionary actions performed by autonomous vehicles in response to situations varying by degree of acuteness. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 205 , 104885. 10.1016/j.tra.2026.104885

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Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Schools > Psychology
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 1879-2375
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 20 January 2026
Date of Acceptance: 19 January 2026
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2026 14:48
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/184062

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