Ethics of connected and automated vehicles

Official metadata

Official title

Ethics of connected and automated vehicles: Recommendations on road safety, privacy, fairness, explainability and responsibility

Official reference

E03659; DOI 10.2777/035239; ISBN 978-92-76-17867-5; KI-03-20-238-EN-N

Document type

Report

Document date

2020-09-17

Document date kind

Publication

Document-date evidence

Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details: Released on EU publications website: 2020-09-17 — Exact official publication fallback; month/year internal precision is preserved separately.

Publication date

2020-09-17

Publication-date evidence

Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details: Released on EU publications website: 2020-09-17 — Official release of the cited English manifestation.

Additional official dates

• Manuscript completion: 2020-06 (month) · Publications Office of the European Union · PDF p.2, manuscript completed in June 2020

Version label

1st edition

Legal status

Non binding

Language

en

Research classifications

These are researcher classifications used to organise and analyse the corpus; they are not official EU metadata.

Record level

Principal

Version status

Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Agenda setting

Corpus tier

Directly related

Sectors

• Transport and mobility

Policy membership

• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Publications Office of the European Union · PDF pp.6-7 executive abstract; PDF pp.37-53, chapter 2 Data and algorithm ethics — The report proposes twenty ethical recommendations for connected and automated vehicles, with sustained treatment of AI, data protection, fairness and explainability in road mobility.
• Sector tags: Transport and mobility · Publications Office of the European Union · PDF pp.6-7 executive abstract; PDF pp.37-53, chapter 2 Data and algorithm ethics — The report proposes twenty ethical recommendations for connected and automated vehicles, with sustained treatment of AI, data protection, fairness and explainability in road mobility.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU expert group · Publications Office of the European Union · PDF p.2, Please cite as — The PDF p.2 required citation names the Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group (E03659); pp.4 and 17 identify its fourteen independent members and mandate.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details: Released on EU publications website: 2020-09-17 — Dated official publication and English report availability are evidenced.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU expert group
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

• Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (E03659) · Publications Office of the European Union · PDF p.2, Please cite as

Institutions and roles

• Directorate-General for Research and Innovation · Responsible body · role evidence · PDF pp.2-3, Directorate D and Unit D.2 publication responsibility
• European Commission · Commissioner · role evidence · PDF p.17, Commission established the expert group and its report mandate
• Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility · Author · role evidence · PDF p.2, explicit citation; p.4 members; p.17 mandate
• Publications Office of the European Union · Official host · role evidence · Official OP catalogue and English PDF
• Publications Office of the European Union · Publisher · role evidence · PDF p.2 imprint

Official sources and identifiers

• Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union
• Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

The report proposes twenty ethical recommendations for connected and automated vehicles, with sustained treatment of AI, data protection, fairness and explainability in road mobility.

Researcher notes

PDF p.2 says manuscript completed in June 2020 and first edition; it does not state an exact internal day. The official OP release of 17 September 2020 is used as publication fallback. The PDF credits the expert group as bibliographic author. PDF p.4 lists members Jean-François Bonnefon (Chairman), David Černý, John Danaher, Nathalie Devillier, Veronica Johansson, Tatiana Kovacikova, Marieke Martens, Milos N. Mladenovic, Paula Palade, Nick Reed, Filippo Santoni de Sio (Rapporteur), Stavroula Tsinorema, Sandra Wachter and Karolina Zawieska. Their membership is preserved without converting each member into an individually credited author. DG RTD's OP corporate-metadata entry does not supersede the report's explicit authorship citation.

Review status

verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review

Verified

Reviewed by

Yichen Hao

Evidence review date

2026-09-06T22:54:09Z

The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions

• Last verified: 2026-09-06T22:54:09Z · Publication details: Released on EU publications website: 2020-09-17. Actual official catalogue HTML captured and reviewed.
• Last verified: 2026-09-06T22:54:09Z · Actual official English PDF bytes captured and validated, with SHA-256 in the document snapshot. Identity, credits, dates and substantive passages inspected: PDF p.2, Please cite as; PDF pp.6-7 executive abstract; PDF pp.37-53, chapter 2 Data and algorithm ethics. Source bytes and receipts retained in the external evidence audit; archived_path is null because no PDF is proposed for repository retention.