Technology providers, car manufacturers, and public agencies all need to work together to undertake extensive testing of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) on public roads before such AVs are allowed to freely travel in ways similar to human-driven vehicles. This raises the importance of understanding public perceptions regarding safety considerations when traveling alongside AVs. This study makes use of a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center to identify the affective, socio-demographic and technology-use attributes that affect an individual’s perception of the safety of sharing the road with AVs (PSSRAV) and identifies measures and interventions that can be undertaken to improve PSSRAV. Additionally, we evaluate individual preferences for AV regulations. Our results underscore the importance of the need for service providers and public agencies to be cognizant of the demographic and lifestyle/affective emotion considerations shaping AV safety perceptions and opinions about AV regulations. In particular, there is a need not only to focus on technological and other infrastructure components of AV development, but also to recognize the socio-technical considerations and human-related factors of the end-users. Our findings should be of substantial interest in the planning, design, deployment, and introduction of AVs within a safe and minimally regulated public operating arena.

技术提供商，汽车制造商和公共机构都需要共同努力，以在公共道路上对全自动驾驶汽车（AV）进行广泛的测试，然后才允许此类自动驾驶汽车以类似于人驾驶车辆的方式自由行驶。这就增加了在与自动驾驶汽车同行时理解公众对安全考虑的看法的重要性。这项研究利用了皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）进行的全国性调查，确定了影响个人对与AV共享道路安全性（PSSRAV）的感知的情感，社会人口统计和技术使用属性，并确定了可以采取哪些措施和干预措施可以改善PSSRAV。此外，我们评估个人对AV法规的偏好。我们的结果强调了服务提供商和公共机构必须了解人口统计和生活方式/情感情感因素的重要性，这些因素会影响视音频安全的认知和对视音频法规的看法。特别是，不仅需要专注于视音频开发的技术和其他基础架构组件，还需要认识到最终用户的社会技术因素和与人相关的因素。我们的发现应在安全且受最低监管的公共运营领域内对AV的规划，设计，部署和引入产生重大兴趣。不仅需要专注于视音频开发的技术和其他基础设施组成部分，而且还需要认识到最终用户的社会技术因素和与人有关的因素。我们的发现应在安全且受最低监管的公共运营领域内对AV的规划，设计，部署和引入产生重大兴趣。不仅需要专注于视音频开发的技术和其他基础设施组成部分，而且还需要认识到最终用户的社会技术因素和与人有关的因素。我们的发现应在安全且受最低监管的公共运营领域内对AV的规划，设计，部署和引入产生重大兴趣。