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PURPOSE: Fully automated vehicles (AVs) hold promise towards providing numerous societal benefits through productive aging, including drastically reducing road fatalities, improving participation, and equity of services to the medically-at-risk and economically disadvantaged. However, we know little about the adoption practices of individuals related to automated vehicles.

RESEARCH AIM: Several technology acceptance models guided the construction of a 40-item survey that was designed in this study to assess transportation users' perceptions of automated vehicles. Perceptions entail perceived ease of use, usefulness, safety, trust, and external factors (ie, media, authority, and social influences).

DESIGN: Descriptive study that assesses the face and content validity.

METHOD: A focus group of 11 members from the Institute of Mobility, Activity, and Participation assessed face validity to ensure items appeared …