Passenger physiology in self-driving vehicles during unexpected events.

While using fully autonomous vehicles is expected to radically change the way we live our daily lives, it is not yet available in most parts of the world, so we only have sporadic results on passenger reactions. Furthermore, we have very limited insights into how passengers react to an unexpected event during the ride. Previous physiological research has shown that passengers have lower levels of anxiety in the event of a human-driven condition compared to a self-driving condition.

Physiological measurements in social acceptance of self driving technologies.

The goal of the present study is to examine the cognitive/affective physiological correlates of passenger travel experience in autonomously driven transportation systems. We investigated the social acceptance and cognitive aspects of self-driving technology by measuring physiological responses in real-world experimental settings using eye-tracking and EEG measures simultaneously on 38 volunteers. A typical test run included human-driven (Human) and Autonomous conditions in the same vehicle, in a safe environment.