Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence in Cars: A Survey Approach

This exploratory descriptive survey analyzes the acceptance of different automated systems used in partly and fully autonomous cars, and whether there is a difference between the level of acceptance for someone’s own use and desire for others to use them. The survey reports answers from 199 respondents to an online questionnaire run on Amazon Mechanical Turk (Amazon MTurk). The majority of respondents express high or very high acceptance of partly automated systems; however, when it comes to full automation, the acceptance rate drops significantly. Moreover, the acceptance rate for roughly half of the systems does not differ significantly for the respondent’s own use and use by others.