Lecture by Professor Yaniv Hanoch (Coventry University) – May 8, 2025
In light of the tragic events at the University of Warsaw, we regret to inform you that tomorrow’s seminar (May 8), featuring Professor Yaniv Hanoch, has been cancelled. We will announce a new date for the event in due course.
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We warmly invite you to attend the lecture, organised as part of the Warsaw Economic Seminars series, on May 8, 2025. The speaker, Professor Yaniv Hanoch from Coventry University, will present his study titled “Are you going to drive it? The role of financial, physical and personal risk perceptions in Autonomous Vehicle choice”.
In addition, Professor Hanoch will share insights on publishing in scientific journals from the perspective of an Associate Editor at the Judgment and Decision Making journal. More information about the journal is available at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decision-making.
The seminar will begin at 17:00 in Room A203. There is also a possibility to attend remotely via the Zoom platform.
Link to the meeting: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/93278126659?pwd=HAlBLR5bz9uqFroMDWLPnPF02vgqWi.1
[Meeting ID: 932 7812 6659
Passcode: 014067]
We cordially encourage you to participate and to review the abstract of the presentation provided below.
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Autonomous Vehicles (AV) are predicted to revolutionize the motor industry, yet concerns over their safety have impacted individuals’ risk perception of this novel technology. While previous work has examined the link between risk perception and intentions to adopt and use AVs, several important limitations—e.g., such as lack of experimental manipulations, focus on a single dimension of risk, and lack of clarity about automation levels—restrict their merit. In three high-power studies (~3,000 participants), we examined how three different types of risks (personal, physical, and financial), three levels of risk (low, medium, and high), and three levels of vehicle automation impact individuals' intentions to drive AVs either alone or with their family. Our results show that personal risk and physical risk significantly impact intentions to use AVs regardless of the levels of risk. Moreover, our studies show that the intention to drive an AV with family members is also significantly lower compared to the intention to drive alone in all three risk domains. Our data, however, revealed to impact of financial risk perception on the intention to drive AV whether alone or with family members. Our work provides important insights regarding the role of risk perception on the intention to adopt novel technologies, as well as the literature indicating that risk perception should not be treated as a unified construct but should be divided into different domains. Moreover, the results suggest that policymakers, AV developers and manufacturers need to address the public risk concerns of this technology for them to adopt and use it.