Risk of automated driving: Implications on safety acceptability and productivity

Vinayak Dixit; Zhitao Xiong; Sisi Jian; Neeraj Saxena

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2019.02.005

Risk of automated driving: Implications on safety acceptability and productivity

Accid Anal Prev. 2019 Apr:125:257-266. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2019.02.005. Epub 2019 Feb 22.

Authors

Vinayak Dixit¹, Zhitao Xiong², Sisi Jian², Neeraj Saxena²

Affiliations

¹ Research Centre for Integrated Transportation Innovation, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, 2052, Australia. Electronic address: v.dixit@unsw.edu.au.
² Research Centre for Integrated Transportation Innovation, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, 2052, Australia.

PMID: 30802776
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2019.02.005

Abstract

Autonomous Vehicles have captured the imagination of our society and have promised a future of safe and efficient mobility. However, there is a need to understand behaviour and its consequences in the use of autonomous vehicles. Using paradigms of behavioural and experimental economics, we show that risk attitudes play a role in acceptability of autonomous vehicles, productivity in autonomous vehicles and safety under risk of failures of autonomous systems. We found that risk attitudes and age have a significant impact on these. We believe these findings will help provide guidance to insurance agencies, licensing, vehicle design, and policies around automated vehicles.

Keywords: Acceptability; Autonomous vehicles; Driver behaviour; Driverless cars; Productivity; Reaction times.

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Attitude*
Automation*
Automobile Driving / psychology*
Computer Simulation
Female
Humans
Male
Risk Assessment
Safety*
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult