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CAN SELF-DRIVING CARS ADOPT THE GOOD AND BAD HABITS OF HUMAN DRIVERS?

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A new pan-European research project* is investigating whether drivers are willing to share the road with autonomous vehicles.

Surveys and focus groups organised by Goodyear and the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in 11 European countries are tracking how drivers feel about this radical change.

A key question is how our unwritten rules of road manners and driver behaviour will apply to self-driving cars. And will self-driving cars need to learn human common sense to make every-day driving situations work? At busy road junctions for example…

Will we be polite to self-driving cars?

Preliminary findings have already raised questions from drivers about the flexibility of self-driving cars to adapt to the social landscape of the road.

They wonder whether human drivers will take advantage of computer drivers’ strict adherence to the rules of the road!

Or on the contrary, is there a chance that rule-abiding self-driving cars will lead the way to positive change, encouraging higher standards of behaviour and safety from all drivers?

…First research results are due out soon!

* ThinkGoodMobility platform by Goodyear on smart, safe and sustainable future mobility