- Title
- Humans vs, machines; motorcyclists and car drivers differ in their opinion and trust of self-drive vehicles
- Creator
- Pammer, Kristen; Predojevic, Helena; McKerral, Angus
- Relation
- Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour Vol. 92, Issue January 2023, p. 143-154
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.11.014
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Self-drive vehicles have the potential to revolutionise transport systems, however their adoption by mainstream users is highly dependent on a range of factors including trust. Moreover, perceptions of self-drive cars are likely to be highly dependent on the lived-experience of different road user types. Motorcyclists have high impressions of road-vulnerability and distrust for other road users. This distrust stems from the evidence that the vast number of motorcycle crashes occur as a consequence of other-driver error. We therefore hypothesised that compared with car drivers, vulnerable road users such as motorcyclists would report high levels of other-driver distrust, but high levels of trust in self-drive cars. We conducted semi-structured interviews with motorcyclists and car drivers and found that motorcyclists are indeed distrustful of other drivers but have higher levels of trust for self-drive cars compared with car drivers, while car drivers have low levels of trust for self-drive cars, but high levels of trust for other drivers. Motorcyclists were also more likely to report a perspective of trust that centred around their own personal safety on the road. This study provides valuable insights into different road user's perceptions of AVs.
- Subject
- autonomous vehicles; motorcyclists; vulnerable road users; self-drive cars; trust; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1478966
- Identifier
- uon:50254
- Identifier
- ISSN:1369-8478
- Language
- eng
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