How safe is safe enough for self‐driving vehicles?

P Liu, R Yang, Z Xu - Risk analysis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐driving vehicles (SDVs) promise to considerably reduce traffic crashes. One pressing
concern facing the public, automakers, and governments is “How safe is safe enough for …

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 …

The effect of population age on the acceptable safety of self-driving vehicles

P Liu, Y Zhang, Z He - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Keeping hands off the steering wheel poses a great safety challenge for self-driving vehicles
(SDVs). Determining how safe SDVs should be before being allowed on public roads is a …

Willingness to pay for self-driving vehicles: Influences of demographic and psychological factors

P Liu, Q Guo, F Ren, L Wang, Z Xu - Transportation Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research on willingness to pay (WTP) can provide practical insights for assessing the value
of self-driving vehicle (SDV) technology in the vehicle market. Are people willing to pay extra …

Road safety with self-driving vehicles: General limitations and road sharing with conventional vehicles

M Sivak, B Schoettle - 2015 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Self-driving vehicles are expected to improve road safety, improve the mobility of those who
currently cannot use conventional vehicles, and reduce emissions. In this white paper we …

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 …

Machines versus humans: People's biased responses to traffic accidents involving self-driving vehicles

P Liu, Y Du, Z Xu - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
Although self-driving vehicles (SDVs) bring with them the promise of improved traffic safety,
they cannot eliminate all crashes. Little is known about whether people respond crashes …

[PDF][PDF] A preliminary analysis of real-world crashes involving self-driving vehicles

B Schoettle, M Sivak - University of Michigan Transportation …, 2015 - academia.edu
This study performed a preliminary analysis of the cumulative on-road safety record of
selfdriving vehicles for three of the ten companies that are currently approved for such …

Safer than the average human driver (who is less safe than me)? Examining a popular safety benchmark for self-driving cars

MA Nees - Journal of safety research, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the level of safety required before drivers will accept self-driving cars is not clear,
the criterion of being safer than a human driver has become pervasive in the discourse on …

[HTML][HTML] The future of transportation: ethical, legal, social and economic impacts of self-driving vehicles in the year 2025

M Ryan - Science and engineering ethics, 2020 - Springer
Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) offer great potential to improve efficiency on roads, reduce
traffic accidents, increase productivity, and minimise our environmental impact in the …