Human Biases Preventing The Widespread Adoption Of Self-Driving Cars
This addresses a critical societal problem for policymakers and technology developers by highlighting human biases that could delay or prevent the adoption of autonomous vehicles.
The paper identifies three primary psychological barriers that hinder the widespread adoption of self-driving cars, such as unease with sharing roads and entrusting lives to machines, and proposes strategies to overcome them.
Self-driving cars offer a plethora of safety advantages over our accustomed human-driven ones, yet many individuals feel uneasy sharing the road with these machines and entrusting their lives to their driving capabilities. Thus, bringing about a widespread adoption of autonomous cars requires overcoming these compulsions through careful planning and forethought. Here we break down the three primary psychological barriers that may hamstring or even wholly prevent their widespread adoption as well as how to tackle them.