Produced responses from 1,533 people aged 18 and older. [2] The second survey took place in China, India and Japan and produced complete responses from 610 respondents in China, 527 respondents in India and 585 respondents in Japan. Most respondents had already heard of autonomous or self-driving vehicles, had a positive initial opinion of the technology (or neutral in the case of Japan), and had high expectations about the benefits of the technology. However, most respondents expressed high levels of concern about driving self-driving vehicles, safety issues related to equipment or system failures, and the performance of self-driving vehicles not performing as well of human drivers. Respondents also expressed high levels of concern about vehicles without driver checks; self-driving vehicles that move without being occupied; and self-driving commercial vehicles, buses and taxis. Most respondents expressed a desire to have this technology in their vehicles. However, the majority are not willing to pay extra for the technology (with the exception of respondents in China and India). Compared to respondents in the United Kingdom and Australia, respondents in the United States expressed more concern about driving self-driving vehicles, data privacy, interacting with non-self-driving vehicles, and self-driving vehicles than not they drive and to human drivers in general and by driving a self-driving vehicle with no driver controls available. And compared to respondents in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, respondents in China and India had more positive initial views of self-driving vehicles, expressed greater interest in having such technology in their personal vehicles, and were willing to pay the higher price . most for this. Japanese respondents, on the other hand, generally had more neutral initial opinions about self-driving technology and were willing to pay the minimum for it. The main implications of these
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