Abstract

Road traffic flow will show the phenomenon of mixed driving of autonomous vehicles and traditional vehicles in the future. In order to explore psychological factors that affect traditional vehicle drivers' intention to follow autonomous vehicles in the human-machine hybrid driving environment, three variables of driver's understanding, risk perception, and acceptance of autonomous vehicles are introduced to construct an extended theoretical framework of planning behavior. Three hundred thirty-one subjective evaluation data are obtained through questionnaire survey. The internal consistency and reliability of the data are tested by SPSS and AMOS softwares. Finally, the path analysis and mediation effect analysis are carried out by using structural equation model to test relationship among the influencing factors. The results show that the structural equation model of driver's car-following intention based on the theory of extended planning behavior has good explanatory power for the driver's car-following intention in the mixed driving environment. Driver's behavioral attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control of autonomous vehicles have a significant positive and direct effect on driver's car-following intention. Driver's risk perception and acceptance of autonomous vehicles have a significant indirect effect on driver's car-following intention through intermediary variables, in which the effect of risk perception is negative, and the effect of acceptance is positive. The degree of understanding has both a significant positive direct effect and a significant positive indirect effect on driver's car-following intention. The research results can be used as the basis for vehicle interaction behavior analysis in the human-machine hybrid driving environment.

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