Souris C., Theofilatos A., Yannis G., “Attitudes of Greek drivers towards autonomous vehicles”, Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Transportation Research In Greece, Thessaloniki, 27-29 September 2017.

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate Greek drivers’ willingness to buy an autonomous vehicle, through a survey that included a stated-preference approach and a binary logistic regression model that was used for the formulation of the mathematical model. Results show that willingness to buy is dependent on five variables: age, current cost of drivers’ cars and the existence of driving support systems (GPS, parking assistant) in them, as well as their opinion on the level of safety of autonomous vehicles compared to vehicles today, and on the circulation of autonomous Public Transport and taxis on the roads, The variable that least influences the willingness to buy is the current cost of drivers’ cars, while the opinion on the circulation of autonomous Public Transport and taxis on the roads has two times more influence than the current cost of drivers’ cars.