Assessing requirements and concerns of potential users of automated driving services progressed by Internet of Things using a co-designer approach

Road vehicles are becoming increasingly automated and connected due to rapid technological progress and digitalization trends. Vehicle connectivity might improve automated driving (AD) in various ways. While the benefits of convergence of sensor-based technologies and connected-vehicle communications are relatively well analyzed from technological, economical, and legal perspective in recent works, assessing user acceptance remains a challengeable task as many of the benefits of this convergence are not directly observable by the users. This study provides early insights on expectations, requirements and concerns of potential users of AD progressed by Internet of Things solutions based on an online survey conducted in eight European countries. It is a part of the European project AUTOPILOT where different use cases of AD progressed by Internet of Things (IoT) are developed and tested. This contribution summarizes the main results from the survey and discusses their implication for the development of the technology considering the user perspective.