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Self-driving vehicles are one of today's most significant disruptive technologies. This research is dedicated to the ethical discourse of specific unavoidable accident scenarios, addressing the ethical design of crash algorithms. Building on a critique of existing approaches, an alternative perspective is outlined which integrates contextual factors, decision-theoretical parameters, and metaethical arguments. It utilises concepts from ethics of risk in order to emphasize normative implications for previously unresolved ethical questions. Finally, drawing upon a deontological framework from ethics of risk, the reasonableness and fairness of reciprocal risk imposition are justified as central criteria of a coherent risk practice.

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