Autonomous vehicles are continually being developed and are the focus of many research projects. While the focus so far has been primarily on technical features and the implementation of autonomous vehicles, we are turning to the consumer side to analyze the preferences of potential users regarding teleoperable robotaxis. After all, user acceptance is a necessary condition for the success of a new technology. Using a choice-based conjoint analysis, we investigate preferences for three different control dependent attributes and the price. We observe price to be the most important attribute, followed by the possibility of intervention, pilot, and interior monitoring-in this order. However, respondents' preferences turn out to be very heterogeneous. Within the framework of a cluster analysis, we look at the results in segments and analyze possible moderating effects using an analysis of variance.
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