“…The introduction of automated vehicles to road traffic is motivated by several predicted, beneficial outcomes (Maurer, Gerdes, Lenz, & Winner, 2015;Stanton & Young, 1998) such as mitigating the negative effects of routine drives on drivers' health and compensating the negative effects of the predicted increase in passenger traffic by increasing traffic efficiency (Payre, Cestac, & Delhomme, 2014;Roberts, Hodgson, & Dolan, 2011). Beyond that, although advancements in passive and active safety technologies have led to a significant reduction in road accidents (Choi & Ji, 2015), European data, for example, show that 26,000 road fatalities were still reported in the European Union in 2015 (European Commission, 2016).…”