Public Opinion on Automated Driving: Results of an International Questionnaire Among 5,000 Respondents
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Frequently Asked Questions (14)
Q2. What were the main expected benefits of self-driving vehicles?
The main expected benefits of self-driving vehicles included crash reduction (70% of responses), reduction of emissions (64%), and reduced fuel consumption (72%).
Q3. How many responses could be included in the statistical analyses?
The authors implemented a 63-question survey via the CrowdFlower crowdsourcing service, and the authors collected 5000 responses, 4886 of which could be included in their statistical analyses.
Q4. How many people were concerned about the safety of self-driving vehicles?
In particular, 26% of the US respondents were ‘‘very concerned’’ about system/equipment failure and vehicle performance in unexpected situations, while the corresponding percentages for UK and Australia were 15% and 16% respectively.
Q5. What is the role of automated driving systems in solving traffic accidents?
Automated driving systems have the potential to resolve these problems by increasing safety on public roads while decreasing traffic congestion, gas emissions, and fuel consumption (Anderson et al., 2014).
Q6. How many people were positive to self-driving cars?
More than 40% of the respondents were positive to either purchasing self-driving technology in their next vehicle or equipping their current vehicle with such technology.
Q7. How many people believed that the Level-3 would never happen?
28% of the respondents indicated that the Level-3 automated vehicles will be commonplace on UK roads not earlier than 2040, while the number of those believed that this would never happen increased to 20%.
Q8. How many respondents would be willing to pay more than $30,000 for fully automated driving?
240 respondents (4.9%) indicated they would be willing to pay more than $30,000 for fully automated driving, compared to only 117 and 154 respondents for partially and highly automated driving, respectively.
Q9. What was the first study to examine the use of autonomous driving?
Their first study (Power, 2012), conducted in March 2012, surveyed 17,400 vehicle owners regarding their intention to purchase an autonomous driving mode, defined as ‘‘a feature that allows the vehicle to take control of acceleration, braking and steering, without any human interaction’’. 37% of the respondents answered that they ‘‘would definitely’’ or ‘‘would probably’’ be interested in purchasing such technology.
Q10. How many Chinese and Indian respondents expressed interest in self-driving vehicles?
a large number of Chinese and Indian respondents (76% and 80% respectively) expressed interest in acquiring such technology on their personal vehicles, compared to only 41% of the Japanese respondents.
Q11. How many people agreed that self-driving vehicles would improve safety for all road users?
Results revealed that 36% and 24% of respondents agreed and strongly agreed, respectively, that automated vehicles would improve safety for all road users.
Q12. What are the limitations of cross-national correlations?
Other limitations of cross-national correlations include their relatively small sample size (only 40 countries with at least 25 of respondents per country) and possible non-independence of data points (e.g., adjacent countries may be similarand dependent on each other), according to which the notion of statistical significance can be misleading (Pollet, Tybur, Frankenhuis, & Rickard, 2014).
Q13. How much would the population be willing to pay for a fully automated car?
At the same time, there is a fair part of the population who will enjoy fully automated driving, and about 5% would be willing to pay even more than $30,000 to purchase it.
Q14. How many people believe fully automated driving will reach a 50% market share?
In conclusion, their survey showed that 69% of people believe that fully automated driving will reach a 50% market share between now and 2050 (cf. Fig. 6).