Investigating the Public Acceptance of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles in Hungary

Somos, Péter and Lukovics, Miklós (2023) Investigating the Public Acceptance of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles in Hungary. ÉSZAK-MAGYARORSZÁGI STRATÉGIAI FÜZETEK, 20 (2). pp. 31-45. ISSN 1786-1594

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Abstract

The technological advancement of autonomous vehicles has accelerated in recent days: the number of street tests conducted in the daily traffic of cities is increasing dynamically, and so are the numbers of cities involved, participating developers, and tested vehicles. It can also be observed that not only self-driving cars are being tested on the street now; self-driving buses and trucks are also appearing on public roads, and on the pavements a lesser-known type of vehicle can be found, the so-called autonomous city delivery robots. There are several international studies on the social acceptance of self-driving vehicles, but the vast majority of them focus on self-driving cars. We have little information about how the urban population relates to autonomous delivery robots, which travel on the pavement and can come into much more direct contact with residents than their counterparts that travel on the road or in the air. Our study, by means of netnography and questionnaire research, as well as motion picture sentiment research, analyses Hungarian society's attitude towards self-driving transport vehicles.

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