“…Using open ended questions, Bennett et al (2020) found that participants identified six stakeholders in the road environment responsible for some level of blame including the driver, pedestrian, vehicle system itself, government, manufacturer, and programmers. As control shifted away from the human, the proportion of blame shifted to a mixture of the driver, vehicle system, and the manufacturer (Copp et al, 2021;Pöllänen et al, 2020). That is, when considering the human driver and the vehicle system, individuals tend to assign more blame to the automation system as well as judge automation-caused crashes more negatively, known as Blame Attribution Asymmetry (Liu & Du, 2021).…”