Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles

Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon and Iyad Rahwan
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Azim Shariff: UC Irvine - University of California [Irvine] - UC - University of California
Iyad Rahwan: IDSS - MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society [Cambridge, MA] - MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract: Self-driving cars offer a bright future, but only if the public can overcome the psychological challenges that stand in the way of widespread adoption. We discuss three: ethical dilemmas, overreactions to accidents, and the opacity of the cars' decision-making algorithms — and propose steps towards addressing them.

Date: 2017
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Published in Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, 1 (10), pp.694-696. ⟨10.1038/s41562-017-0202-6⟩

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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0202-6

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