Are People Ready to Entrust Their Safety to an Autonomous Ambulance as an Alternative and More Sustainable Transportation Mode?

Azamat Zarkeshev and Csaba Csiszár
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Azamat Zarkeshev: Department of Transport Technology and Economics (KUKG) Budapest, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering (KJK), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Stoczek u. 2, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
Csaba Csiszár: Department of Transport Technology and Economics (KUKG) Budapest, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering (KJK), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Stoczek u. 2, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 20, 1-12

Abstract: Progress in advanced vehicular technologies and computer science leads to driverless vehicles becoming a reality. The standard ambulances might be replaced by driverless ambulances operated by an autopilot that provides passengers with a secure regime. Therefore, the study’s aim was to collate two different countries regarding the consumers’ preparedness to travel on such autonomous ambulances. To obtain a more demonstrative result, a questionnaire survey was conducted in two countries (Hungary and Kazakhstan). It also gathered ‘affect’ measures in order to figure out if ‘affect’ served as a medium between the ambulance mode and readiness to ride, and to understand whether emotions play any role during the decision making. The necessary data were collected through the so-called Autonomous Ambulance Acceptance Questionnaire. After conducting ‘t-Test’, ‘ANOVA’, and Mediation analysis, the findings have been discussed. The results help to realize the necessity of developing educational guides to prepare potential patients for Autonomous Vehicles technology.

Keywords: readiness to ride; driverless ambulance; ‘affect’; Autonomous Ambulance Acceptance Questionnaire; sustainable transportation mode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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