TY  - JOUR
CY  - New York, NY
ID  - publications43556
UR  - https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/43556/
IS  - n°103069
A1  - Shariff, Azim
A1  - Bonnefon, Jean-François
A1  - Rahwan, Iyad
Y1  - 2021/05//
N2  - Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promise of a multi-trillion-dollar industry that revolutionizes transportation safety and convenience depends as much on overcoming the psychological barriers to their widespread use as the technological and legal challenges. The first AV-related traffic fatalities have pushed manufacturers and regulators towards decisions about how mature AV technology should be before the cars are rolled out in large numbers. We discuss the psychological factors underlying the question of how safe AVs need to be to compel consumers away from relying on the abilities of human drivers. For consumers, how safe is safe enough? Three preregistered studies (N = 4,566) reveal that the established psychological biases of algorithm aversion and the better-than-average effect leave consumers averse to adopting AVs unless the cars meet extremely potentially unrealistically high safety standards. Moreover, these biases prove stubbornly hard to overcome, and risk substantially delaying the adoption of life-saving autonomous driving technology. We end by proposing that, from a psychological perspective, the emphasis AV advocates have put on safety may be misplaced.
PB  - Pergamon
JF  - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
VL  - vol.126
KW  - autonomous vehicles
KW  - automation
KW  - algorithm aversion
KW  - safety
KW  - illusory superiority
SN  - 0968-090X
TI  - How safe is safe enough? Psychological mechanisms underlying extreme safety demands for self-driving cars
AV  - public
ER  -