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How people speak about autonomous cars - an analysis of internet discussions in Czech Republic

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F21%3A73610634" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/21:73610634 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/44994575:_____/21:N0000134

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://tots.upol.cz/artkey/tot-202102-0005_how-people-speak-about-autonomous-cars-an-analysis-of-internet-discussions-in-czech-republic.php" target="_blank" >https://tots.upol.cz/artkey/tot-202102-0005_how-people-speak-about-autonomous-cars-an-analysis-of-internet-discussions-in-czech-republic.php</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/tots.2021.014" target="_blank" >10.5507/tots.2021.014</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    How people speak about autonomous cars - an analysis of internet discussions in Czech Republic

  • Original language description

    This study aims to explore and to define the main topics and concerns regarding the issue of autonomous vehicles in the Czech population. Further, the change of these topics throughout time is explored. To do this, the qualitative content analysis of comments below news articles concerning autonomous vehicles on popular Czech Internet websites was performed to extract main discussed topics. With a huge development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and its technology, the question of successful implementation arises. The acceptance of this technology by the end users stands for an important factor of the implementation. For this, general attitudes toward autonomous vehicles and various concerns of people provide important information. The aim of this paper is to explore main topics and concerns regarding the issue of autonomous vehicles in the Czech population. The qualitative analysis of internet discussions beneath news articles about autonomous vehicles (AVs) on popular Czech news portals was performed. Two separated data collections were performed for a total of 17 articles from July 2014 to February 2020 to address the changes in attitudes through time. Content analysis revealed a general skepticism and a large number of concerns. The negativity and fear of the Czech discussants stemmed mainly from insufficient knowledge of the topic. Content analysis revealed main topics concerned the introduction of autonomous mobility into general practice in terms of time (when), experience (especially previous negative experience with elements of control automation), and analogy (comparisons to other modes of transport). Other important topics addressed driving pleasure, (dis)trust of manufacturers, legal and ethical questions about AV, risk of hacker attacks, reactions of drivers of conventional vehicles, carsharing, financial use of AV, manual takeover, application of AV only for some modes of transportation (e.g., freight transport), and a difficulty of introducing AVs into the Czech environment. In contrast to foreign opinion polls, there were no topics related to privacy and the misuse of personal data. It was not possible to find socio-demographic variables from the discussion threads, but information about the preference of news portals by older age groups was obtained from the data on the monitored portals. Assuming that authors of the comments were older people, the negative attitude towards AV corresponds to the current literature. In order to ensure representative data, it will be necessary to identify socio-demographic variables and the extension of the analyzed discussion threads to social networks as part of further research. Without these preconditions, it will be difficult to determine accurate evaluations and possibly to create an educational campaign for the general public focused on autonomous mobility.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Transactions on Transport Sciences

  • ISSN

    1802-9876

  • e-ISSN

    1802-9876

  • Volume of the periodical

    2021

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    8

  • Pages from-to

    45-52

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85120562341