The Politics of New Driving Technologies: Political Ideology and Autonomous Vehicle Adoption

摘要: Abstract Autonomous vehicles (AVs) typify the nexus of smart Internet-based technology and prior innovations in transportation. A challenge with AV research is that not yet readily available for consumers to experience. Thus, public perceptions AVs are often assessed through survey which has uncovered demographic socio-economic differences willingness adopt pay AVs. It also provided information about perceived benefits risks associated how these affects support self-driving car technology. More recently, studies have found political ideology linked concerns cars but whether this link extends intent Given gap our knowledge, contributions present paper twofold. One, we will assess impacts intention Two, directly or indirectly As regards latter, conduct a mediation analysis path model extent via respondents expressed Our results reveal an important predictor individuals’ AVs, as characterized by both ride own Specifically, compared conservative participants, moderates liberals reported higher adoption intentions. We find effect on mediated participants’ Compared conservatives, lower