Using Simulation-software-generated Animations to Investigate Attitudes Towards Autonomous Vehicles Accidents

Road accidents involving autonomous vehicles are inevitable and have the potential to damage public's confidence in technology ultimately result its disuse. It's important understand how people react such incidents influencing factors of blame attribution trust restoration. Research this field has started grow but faces a huge methodological challenge, which is develop high-fidelity experimental stimuli as realistic representations accident scenarios order elicit valid reactions from human participants. The present paper reviews evaluates several existing methods used research before proposing an alternative method generating animated sequence using driving simulation software. It argued that strikes good balance fidelity, versatility cost-effectiveness. We also some preliminary evidence for effectiveness variable manipulation methodology.