Acceptance of Self-Driving Cars in United Arab Emirates

Abstract

Transportation industry witnessing a revolution of the emerging of self-driving cars which are autonomous vehicles that drive by itself without human involvement. It is expected that self-driving cars would have powerful feature and would provide a lot of benefits such as reducing traveling time, reducing traffic jams, reducing car accidents and many other benefits. The government of United Arab Emirates adopt technology implementation in all life aspects in the country starting by turning into smart government and then smart education and many other implementations of using technology in different aspects of the country. This adoption of technology positively affected UAE people’s intention toward accepting technology. As UAE government always adopt best technology practices, it is expected that United Arab Emirates would adopt the using of autonomous cars. The aim of this research paper is to investigate UAE people’s intention to turn into using self-driving cars. Researcher aim as well to explore the most common factors that may affect people’s intention to turn into using self-driving cars. This research paper methodology based on quantitative methods for gathering data in which questionnaire developed and sent to people live in United Arab Emirates.