"...I introduce the concept of a moral crumple zone to describe how responsibility for an action may be misattributed to a human actor who had limited control over the behavior of an automated or autonomous system. Just as the crumple zone in a car is designed to absorb the force of impact in a crash, the human in a highly complex and automated system may ... [bear] the brunt of the moral and legal responsibilities when the overall system malfunctions." ---Madeleine Clare Elish
