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Cars and Contemporary Communication: How the Rise of Autonomous and Robotized Cars is Perceived and Felt in Europe
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Abstract This article explores users’ attitudes, perceptions, views, and emotions toward car automation and robotization, two processes increasingly affecting society in different ways––namely, the rise of autonomous and robotized cars (and vehicles in general) and the increasing level of robotization of cur... view more
This article explores users’ attitudes, perceptions, views, and emotions toward car automation and robotization, two processes increasingly affecting society in different ways––namely, the rise of autonomous and robotized cars (and vehicles in general) and the increasing level of robotization of current cars. To address these questions, we investigated the feeling of trust and comfort toward driverless cars among Europeans using two Eurobarometer surveys. Making use of two representative samples of the European population, we aimed to explore citizens’ attitudes and opinions about automation and digitization. The two surveys involved, respectively, 27,801 and 27,901 participants from all EU-28 countries. Furthermore, we investigated, in Northern Italy, the perception of robotization of cars and other technologies of everyday use, as well as the attitudes and opinions of children and preteens (n = 740), and adolescents (n = 801)—relevant social groups not covered in the Eurobarometer surveys.... view less
Keywords
motor vehicle; robot; autonomy; confidence; attitude; attitude research; perception; digitalization; Europe; EU; Eurobarometer
Classification
Social Psychology
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
driverless cars; robotized cars; comfort toward driverless cars; imaginary and perception of car robotization; trust in driverless cars; ZA5933: Eurobarometer 82.4 (2014); ZA6861: Eurobarometer 87.1 (2017)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 2728-2747
Journal
International Journal of Communication, 13 (2019)
ISSN
1932-8036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0