Srivatsan Chakravarthi Kumaran

A Social Approach for Autonomous Vehicles: A Robotic Object to Enhance Passengers’ Sense of Safety and Trust

One of the central challenges in designing autonomous vehicles concerns passenger trust and sense of safety. This challenge is related to passengers' well-established past experience with non-autonomous vehicles, which leads to concern about the absence of a driver. We explored whether it is possible to address this c…