Public Perception of Autonomous Cars
The challenge: identifying appropriate national policies for deployment of autonomous cars in South Korea
Design Team: Open Roboethics Institute (ORI)
Client: Korean Transportation Institute (KOTI)
Review previous ORi polls on autonomous cars here.
The approach:
- Map out the critical ethical, social and public perception issues on the deployment of autonomous cars through brainstorming and engagement of experts,
- Design and conduct a series of online surveys from 2017-2020 that investigate these issues across two participant pools from South Korea and United States,
- Identify the most critical issues and generate recommendations from this work
Key learning or insights: So far we have explored three main issues:
- The value of driver autonomy versus safety when it comes to using of safety-critical features such as the Automatic Braking System
- The convenience of using software updates versus public safety if updates are not done by each user
- The public perspective towards using software patches created by third-party developers
The impact of findings: The findings will inform future policy considerations.
My specific role: In 2017, I was leading the identification of issues and design of the survey. In 2018, I will be leading this research fully and will be more heavily involved in analysis and delivery as well.