Self-driving vehicles: Are people willing to trade risks for environmental benefits?

P Liu, Y Ma, Y Zuo - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2019 - Elsevier
Mass adoption of self-driving vehicles (SDVs) is predicted to have a profound effect on the
environment. Here, we present three studies (N= 1258) that examine the impact of the …

Sharing the road with autonomous vehicles: Perceived safety and regulatory preferences

GS Nair, CR Bhat - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 2021 - Elsevier
Technology providers, car manufacturers, and public agencies all need to work together to
undertake extensive testing of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) on public roads before such …

Human decisions in moral dilemmas are largely described by utilitarianism: Virtual car driving study provides guidelines for autonomous driving vehicles

AK Faulhaber, A Dittmer, F Blind, MA Wächter… - … and engineering ethics, 2019 - Springer
Ethical thought experiments such as the trolley dilemma have been investigated extensively
in the past, showing that humans act in utilitarian ways, trying to cause as little overall …

Predictors of attitudes toward autonomous vehicles: The roles of age, gender, prior knowledge, and personality

N Charness, JS Yoon, D Souders, C Stothart… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) hold considerable promise for maintaining aging adults' mobility
as they develop impairments in driving skill. Nonetheless, attitudes can be a significant …

Risk perception and social acceptability of autonomous vehicles: A case study in Hiroshima, Japan

M Chikaraishi, D Khan, B Yasuda, A Fujiwara - Transport Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Given the impending introduction of self-driving cars to Japan within the next several years,
gaining a better understanding of public opinion and risk perception of autonomous vehicles …

Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles

YE Bigman, K Gray - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
How should self-driving cars make decisions when human lives hang in the balance? The
Moral Machine experiment 1 (MME) suggests that people want autonomous vehicles (AVs) …

Motorists' preferences for different levels of vehicle automation

B Schoettle, M Sivak - 2015 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
This report builds on a recent series of reports addressing public opinion, human factors,
and safety-related issues with self-driving vehicles (Schoettle and Sivak, 2014, 2015; Sivak …

The role of values and ethics in influencing consumers' intention to use autonomous vehicle hailing services

L Qian, J Yin, Y Huang, Y Liang - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles (AVs)
represent a major revolutionary trend leading to a long-term transition in mobility. Despite …

What drives support for self-driving car technology in the United States?

G Dixon, PS Hart, C Clarke, NH O'Donnell… - Journal of Risk …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in automotive technology have made fully automated self-driving cars
technologically feasible. Despite offering many benefits such as increased safety, improved …

Human moral reasoning types in autonomous vehicle moral dilemma: A cross-cultural comparison of Korea and Canada

J Rhim, G Lee, JH Lee - Computers in Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The widespread of Autonomous Vehicle (AV) promises a transportation system
revolution. Despite its potential benefits, there has been an unsolved discussion of how AV …