Is it OK to bully automated cars?

To integrate automated vehicles (AVs) into the transportation network, it’s time to consider how human road users will interact with them. Human aggression toward AVs could be a new risk in mixed traffic and reduce AV adoption. Is it OK to drive aggressively toward AVs? The authors examined how identical aggressive behavior toward an AV or human driver is appraised differently by observers. In the 2 (scenario type: human driver vs. AV) × 2 (victim identity salience: low vs. high) between-subjects survey, the authors randomly allocated participants (N = 956) to one of four conditions where they viewed a video clip from an AV or a human driver showing a car suddenly braking continuously ahead of the AV or human driver’s car. The salience of victim identity influenced the observers’ appraisals of aggressive behavior. When asked to judge the front car’s behavior toward this AV or human driver (the victim identity is salient), they reported more acceptability and less risk perception, negative affect, and immoral judgment while judging this behavior toward the AV. When asked to judge the front car’s behavior (the victim identity not highlighted), they reported non-different appraisals. This finding implies that AVs might need to hide their identity to blend in visually and behaviorally as regular cars.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106714
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457522001506
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• Authors:
  • Liu, Peng
  • Zhai, Siming
  • Li, Tingting
• Publication Date: 2022-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 106714
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 173
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggression; Autonomous vehicles; Behavior; Driver performance; Vehicle mix
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01848494
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 13 2022 1:14PM