Human Biases Preventing The Widespread Adoption Of Self-Driving Cars

TL;DR

This paper identifies psychological barriers hindering the widespread adoption of self-driving cars and discusses strategies to overcome these biases to facilitate acceptance.

Contribution

It analyzes key human biases affecting autonomous vehicle adoption and proposes methods to address these psychological barriers.

Findings

Identifies three primary psychological barriers to adoption.

Suggests targeted strategies to overcome biases.

Highlights importance of psychological acceptance for deployment.

Abstract

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.