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August 03, 2016 02:00 AM

Will self-driving cars be bullied?

Tire Business Staff
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    LONDON (Aug. 3, 2016) — Goodyear and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) have launched a pan-European research project to investigate the attitudes and readiness of drivers to share the road with autonomous vehicles.

    The research will capture driver opinions from 11 European countries through surveys and focus groups as part of Akron-based Goodyear's “ThinkGoodMobility” a content and knowledge platform focusing on smart, safe and sustainable future mobility.

    “Self-driving cars are being designed to predictably adhere to the rules of the road, but less predictable is how human drivers may interact with computer drivers,” said Olivier Rousseau, vice president of Goodyear's consumer tire business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

    “Our latest collaboration with the LSE will explore this changing driving environment as autonomous vehicles and driver assist technologies continue to become more common.”

    Researchers at IHS Automotive recently predicted there will be sales of nearly 21 million autonomous vehicles globally in 2035.

    According to a 2015 Goodyear/LSE survey of drivers from 15 European countries, 88 percent of respondents agreed that there are “unwritten rules” that govern driver interactions with pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles on the road.

    Dr. Chris Tennant, who is leading the research project at the LSE, said “a key question for this year's research is how the unwritten rules and driver behavior that we employ will apply to self-driving cars, and to what extent self-driving cars will need to learn the common sense humans use to make every-day driving situations work.”

    Preliminary focus group discussions have already raised questions from drivers about:

    • The flexibility of self-driving cars to adapt to the social landscape of the road;
    • Whether human drivers will take advantage of computer drivers' strict adherence to the rules of the road;
    • Or, to the contrary, how rule-abiding self-driving cars might lead the way to positive change, encouraging higher standards of behavior and safety from all drivers.

    “The questions raised in our focus groups suggest that drivers' interactions with autonomous vehicles will develop as we are increasingly exposed to them,” LSE's Mr. Tennant added. “We believe that this research project will generate valuable insights into how autonomous vehicles can be properly integrated into the dynamic social space of our roads.”

    Goodyear and LSE said they plan to publicly report research findings in October.

    LSE calls itself “one of the foremost social science universities in the world.” It is a specialist university with an international intake and a global reach, with its research and teaching spanning “the full breadth of the social sciences” — from economics, politics and law to sociology, anthropology, accounting and finance. The school, founded in 1895, has about 9,500 full-time students from 140 countries, a staff of over 3,000, with about 46 per cent drawn from countries outside the United Kingdom.

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