As part of a research project of the department for engineering and traffic psychology at the institute of psychology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, we ask for your help.

What it’s about:

In the urban traffic of the future, in addition to human road users (e.g. pedestrians, cyclists, car drivers) automated vehicles which assume the driving task completely will be part of the traffic events. By means of an online questionnaire, we want to find out, how automated vehicles are supposed to drive in the city so that human road users feel safe. Specifically, this survey is about the situation in which an automated vehicle approaches a confluence, where it does not have the right of way. For this situation, we want to answer the question, when the automated vehicle should start braking so that the brake process is conceived as safe and pleasant.  

What awaits you in the event of participation in the survey:

If you decide upon participating in the survey you will watch multiple short videos online and answer questions anonymously. The videos show the approach of an automated vehicle towards a confluence in the city from different angles. Some questions focus on your assessment of the driving situation shown in the videos whereas others focus on your usual driving behaviour and experience with automation. 

The survey takes approx. 25 – 30 minutes. 

Benefits and risks, in connection with the study:

With your participation in the survey, you can contribute to a better empirical understanding of what kind of requests human road users have for the driving behaviour of automated vehicles. If you answer the complete questionnaire, you have the opportunity to participate in a giveaway of a total of 25 Amazon vouchers worth 10 Euros each. There are no known risks in the participation of this survey.

Anonymity:

Participation in this survey is anonymous. This means that no data of the questionnaire can be tracked to you. The study is conducted online via “Unipark”. Unipark is a password-protected website that does not gather any further information other than your answers to the questionnaire. As soon as you submit the survey, there is no way to link the data inputted by you to the transmitting computer. Your data will be saved anonymously for 10 years and deleted afterwards. 

If you decide to participate in the voucher giveaway we collect your email address in order to contact you in the event of you winning. Your email address will be saved separately from your answers to the survey. Therefore an allocation of your email address to your answers is not possible. After the conclusion of the giveaway, your email address will be deleted.

Voluntariness:

The participation is voluntary and you can stop filling out the survey at any point of time without any disadvantages. If you want to abort you can leave the website. In that case, no data will be used.

Participation requirements:

To participate in the survey you need a valid class B (/3) driving license 

Link to participate:  https://ww3.unipark.de/uc/bs_tu_braunschweig_vollrath/88ea/

Contact for further questions:

Ms. Vanessa Stange, M. Sc.

Technische Universität Braunschweig, Abteilung für Ingenieur- und Verkehrspsychologie

Gaußstr. 23

D-38106 Braunschweig

Tel.: 0531 391-3653

E-Mail: v.stange@tu-braunschweig.de.