Self-driving vehicles are currently being developed in major industries for mass public deployment. Their benefits are attractive, and there is interest in having them on the streets as quickly as possible. Delegating responsibility to the cars has far-reaching impacts. As accidents will be unavoidable, the self-driving car will be asked to make life and death decisions that will impact human lives. However, the impact of machine decision making on the overall acceptance of self-driving cars in society is far from sufficiently addressed. The research presented here investigates three factors, i.e., technology, self-safety, and utilitarianism, and hypothesizes their link to self-driving car acceptance. Survey-collected data is statistically analyzed to assess the proposed hypotheses. The empirical outcome of this work shows that the three investigated factors contribute to the societal acceptance of self-driving cars, with technology being the major contributor while the ethical aspects (self-safety and utilitarianism) follow.

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功利主义、自我安全和技术在接受自动驾驶汽车方面的作用

目前，主要行业正在开发自动驾驶汽车，以进行大规模公共部署。它们的好处很有吸引力，人们有兴趣尽快让它们上街。将责任委托给汽车会产生深远的影响。由于事故不可避免，自动驾驶汽车将被要求做出影响人类生活的生死决定。然而，机器决策对社会对自动驾驶汽车的整体接受度的影响远未得到充分解决。这里介绍的研究调查了三个因素，即技术、自我安全和功利主义，并假设它们与自动驾驶汽车的接受度有关。对调查收集的数据进行统计分析以评估提出的假设。