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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.

I. INTRODUCTION

As technology development has taken on all aspects of life, the world of transportation is witnessing a major revolution due to the emergence of self-driving cars. The emergence of self-driving cars attracted the attention of the media as well as individuals in it. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, (2014) stated that the emergence of self-driving cars attracted people and researchers as well who aim to explore people's perception of self-driving car. Researchers as well aim to explore how reliable the self-driving car is and what benefits the user may got when using this type of car. Self-driving car as defined by Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013) is an automated vehicle that has the ability to drive and move without human involvement. Self-driving car system is powerful, it is equipped as well with tools and resources that allow it to sense the world around it.

The adoption of self-driving cars may be necessary due to many reasons related to regular transportation system and pollution as well. It is expected that self-driving cars would have great impact on transportation system by reducing car accidents, respecting road rules, reaching destinations fast and reducing traffic jams. Self-driving cars as well expected to reduce emissions which positively impacted environment. Old peoples and people who cannot drive may depend on self-driving cars for reaching their destinations as stated by Corey D.Harper, Chris T.Hendrickson, Sonia Mangones, Constantine Samaras, (2016). Even though self-driving cars expected to have lots of benefits and its features claimed to be extraordinary; it is essential to explore the people's intention to turn into using such car type.

The UAE is one of the best countries in the world in the adoption of technology in all aspects of life. UAE government is turned into smart government, the schools adopt smart learning methodologies and the UAE people rely on the use of technology in almost their daily transactions. It is expected that the United Arab Emirates would be one of the leading countries to adopt the usage of self-driving cars. Although the self-driving cars may provide huge benefits to the user compared to the traditional cars that the user drive, the people perception to turn into using this type of cars may vary as some users prefer to engage in driving by themselves.

The aim of this research paper is to investigate the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving cars. This investigation is important for UAE government to explore UAE people's acceptance toward using autonomous cars and to take steps for the adoption of such cars in the future such as setting up regulations and preparing infrastructure as well, for this transportation revolution.

This research applied quantitative methods for collecting data based upon utilization of questionnaire that was prepared and sent for respondents living in United Arab Emirates.

Study Design: the research organized starting by the first section which is the introduction of the research in which the researcher identified the topic as well as the purpose of the research. After that research problem statement identified in the second section. Third section is the research justification/theoretical background in which research papers discussed similar research topic were addressed and explored. The fourth section includes the research questions and related hypothesis that author aim to explore. The fifth section of the research defined the methodology utilized in this research paper. The sixth section includes the Data Analysis and statistical tests conducted in this research. The seventh section includes the research findings. The eighth sections include the discussion. Finally, conclusion included at the ninth section of the research paper.

II. RESEARCH PROBLEM STATEMENT

Recently, technology involved in all life aspects such as the emergence of self-driving car which considered as huge revolution in the industry of transportation. This revolution attracted researchers, individuals, companies and the media for different reasons either to explore the reliability of this type of cars as well as the people's perception of self-driving cars, or to investigate the intention of the people to turn into using this type of cars. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, (2014) stated that the revolution of self-driving cars attracted many people and researchers as well. Self-driving car is an automated vehicle that has the ability to drive and move without human involvement as defined by Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013). Semi-automated cars are utilized widely while full-automated cars have been used in some countries as stated by Gora and Inga Rüba, (2016). The self-driving cars that is considered in this research paper is the full-automated cars.

Traditional transportation result in many problems such as air pollution and traffic jams. Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013) explained how self-driving cars are expected to reduce emissions, reduce traffic jams, reduce car accidents and allow users to reach their destinations fast. Corey D.Harper, Chris T.Hendrickson, Sonia Mangones, Constantine Samaras, (2016) as well showed how there is a need for self-driving cars as people with disabilities, old peoples and people who cannot drive for any reason, could depend on self-driving cars for reaching their destinations.

Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, (2015) mentioned that self-driving car would provide comfortability, safety and will reduce traffic jam as well. Michael A. Nees, (2016) believed that self-driving cars will give the users the chance to take benefits from road time. Ward C., Raue M., Lee C., D'Ambrosio L., Coughlin J.F, (2017) agreed on the mentioned benefits and added that self-driving cars will reduce traveling time and car accidents. Many research papers stated that self-driving cars expected to provide benefits for users.

The aim of this research paper is to explore the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving cars. The researcher aims to investigate the factors that affect people's decision to use self-driving cars. The researcher as well aim to examine the standard Technology Acceptance Model in case of introducing self-driving car for public.

The UAE is seeking the first position in all fields. One of the most important areas of interest to the Government of the United Arab Emirates is the technological field. The Government of the United Arab Emirates has become a smart government and technology is being applied in most of the life's aspects, which has established great acceptance to the transformation to technology among the people of the UAE. As the UAE continues to adopt international best practices in the field of technology, the revolution of using self-driving cars is expected to be supported by the Government of the United Arab Emirates. The adoption of self-driving cars requires investigating people's perception about this type of cars, it require as well exploring infrastructure requirements to adopt self-driving cars, New road regulations must be set in order to adopt self-driving cars. But before taking any of the previously mentioned steps, it is essential to explore the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

Existing researches deals mostly with people perception to autonomous cars, and some case studies conducted in in USA states and other countries to measure people's intention toward using autonomous cars. This research paper aim to fulfil the gap of measuring UAE people' intention to turn into using self-driving car. The standard Technology Acceptance Model slightly modified by adding new constructs in order to measure the most common factors that affects UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving cars.

The results from this investigation is important for the government of United Arab Emirates in order to explore UAE people's acceptance to turn into using autonomous cars and to take steps for autonomous cars adoption in the future such as setting up new road regulations and preparing infrastructure as well, for this transportation revolution.

III. RESEARCH JUSTIFICATION/THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

a) Autonomous self-driving car

As technology development has taken on all aspects of life, we are witnessing a revolution in various means of transportation. One of the most important example of transportation revolution is the emergence of self-driving cars. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, (2014) stated that the emergence of self-driving cars gain the interest of many people as well as researchers who were interested in measuring the people's perception of such car. The Media as well was interested in self-driving car topic as it takes part of their reports and news.

Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013) defined the self-driving car as an automated vehicle that has the ability to drive and move without human involvement. Self-driving car supplemented with resources that allow it to sense the world around it such as the radar and the GPS. Self-driving car equipped with powerful control system to control the movement of the car.

Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013) stated that self-driving car history began with Achen Motor Company as it was the first company that brought up the idea of automation when it presented in Milwaukee a phantom motor car in early 1920s.

Semi-automated cars are already been used widely while full-automated cars have been used in some countries for example in United States, in some states the use of self-driving cars is allowed such as Florida and California as mentioned by Gora and Inga Rüba, (2016).

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA, (2013) introduced levels for automation classification that are ranged from 0 to 4 as explain below:

  • 0: No Automation: Driver is completely responsible about driving.

  • 1: Function-specific Automation: One or more of the control functions can be automated but they operated independently of each other and the driver is fully responsible about driving.

  • 2: Combined Function Automation: Minimally two of the control functions can be automated and work together, and driver may have time to take hands and feet off the control.

  • 3: Limited Self-Driving Automation: Automated car but the driver is expected to participate in driving when it is needed i.e. driving control will be shifted to the driver in some situations.

  • 4: Full Self-Driving Automation: Driver will not participate in driving just will provide the destination.

b) The

When considering the current transportation system, there are many problems that governments seek to find solutions for such as traffic congestion and air pollution resulting from the emissions of carbon dioxide from cars. one of the suggested solutions is the adoption of smart cars i.e. self-driving cars.

With the emergence of self-driving cars and people's interest in them, this important question comes to our minds, is there a need for this type of cars? There are many reasons to adopt the idea of self-driving cars. MatjažKnez, MatevžObrecht, (2019) stated that the car registration worldwide increased sharply year after year, and this increase directly affect the environment and raising the air pollution since most of these cars are fuel-based cars. Self-driving car is smart car some of these cars are fuel-based and some others are electric-based. The use of self-driving cars would give the users the opportunity to reach their destinations faster which may reduce the driving time hence reduce emissions. Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013) explained how self-driving cars depends on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that provides high safety level and smart calculation for best road to reach destination. The use of smart transportation system will result in reducing traffic jams, reducing car accidents hence saving lives and reducing emissions hence reducing air pollution.

Corey D. Harper, Chris T. Hendrickson, Sonia Mangones, Constantine Samaras, (2016) stated that people with disabilities, old people as well as people that are not driving due to medical problems consider the self-driving car as a solution for them to reach their destinations hence there is an increase need for such cars. From what is mentioned earlier, it is clear that there is an increasing need for self-driving cars.

c) Benefits of self-driving car

Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, (2015) believed that it is expected that the self-driving cars would provide great benefits to the users. It is expected that the self-driving cars will provide comfortability compared to traditional cars that the human drive which may result in increased of traveling and mobility. It is expected as well that the self-driving cars reduce traffic jams and provide high standards of safety. Michael A. Nees, (2016) stated as well that the self-driving cars would increase the safety and reduce traffic problems. Michael A. Nees, (2016) believed that self-driving cars would allow the users of the car to take benefits of the road time.

Ward C., Raue M., Lee C., D'Ambrosio L., Coughlin J.F, (2017) agrees on the benefits mentioned earlier that self-driving cars have great benefits such as reducing traveling time, reducing traffic jams, reducing car accidents and allowing the users to take benefits of the travelling time.

Yu Shi, Jiefeng Chen, Qi Li, (2017) studied how the use of self-driving cars effects the capacity of the traffic and found that the cooperation of self-driving cars will results in raising traffic capacity, researchers as well stated that self-driving cars are efficient is speeding up the traffic flows.

Self-driving cars would provide great transportation solution for people with disabilities, old people as well as people that are not driving due to medical problems as mentioned by Corey D. Harper, Chris T. Hendrickson, Sonia Mangones, Constantine Samaras, (2016).

When reviewing the benefits mentioned earlier, benefits of self-driving cars can be concluded as:

  • Self-driving car expected to provide high safety as it respects road rules and will reduce the accidents that are due to human errors.

  • The self-driving cars give the user the opportunity to take benefits of roads times.

  • Self-driving car tends to provide comfort to the user of the car which can lead to increase in the travelling and mobility.

  • Self-driving cars would have great impact on traffic system as it will reduce traffic jams and raise the traffic flows especially at peak-hours.

  • Self-driving cars will reduce the transportation time as it will give the users the chance to reach destinations faster and as a result the fuel consumption will be reduced as well as the emissions from the cars will be reduced and that will have positive impacts on the environment.

  • Self-driving car could be perfect transportation method especially for people with disabilities, old people and people that cannot drive due to medical problems.

d) Challenges for self-driving car adoption

Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, (2014) mentioned how it is important to set new traffic regulations that consider self-driving cars. Michael A. Nees, (2016) raised an important challenge when start using self-driving cars as that type of cars may share the roads with traditional cars that the human drive and this may provide unexpected results.

Michael A. Nees, (2016) believed that the ideal prototype of the self-driving cars that has been advertised may not actually materialize when self-driving cars widely used in real world and this challenge may have negative impacts on public.

Daniel Howard and Danielle Dai, (2013) stated that despite that the self-driving cars planned to be more efficient and sustainable as well it is assumed that is would be a safe car, the perception of public to turn into using self-driving cars may be challenging as public concerned about the real safety and liability the self-driving cars that will be provided in real world. Researchers as well mentioned the manufacturing cost as a challenge as it is expected that self-driving cars would be of high cost for users to own and for government to adapt the road infrastructure for the use of such cars.

M. König, L. Neumayr, (2016) raised the uncertainty challenge for the adoption of self-driving cars as researchers mentioned how people as well as stakeholders may resist to adopt such cars because of their opinions about car's uncertainty. Researchers as well mentioned the people's resistance to change and caution's to "new thing" as a big challenge for the adoption of self-driving cars. One more challenge raised by the researchers that some people drive for pleasure and racing purposes; those people may resist to turn into using self-driving cars.

Frank Douma and Sarah Aue Palodichuk, (2012) stated that self-driving cars may be target for hackers or terrorists. As self-driving cars route can be tracked easily; it is essential to consider the system security and privacy of the self-driving cars. People tend to care about their privacy hence securing the system of the self-driving cars is another challenge for the adoption of self-driving cars.

IV. RESEARCH QUESTIONS

As been discussed in the previous sections, the research gab is to measure the people's intention to turn into using self-driving cars in United Arab Emirates. The objective of this research paper is to investigate the user's preferred specifications in self-driving cars and the relationship between self-driving car's features and the user's intention to turn into using self-driving car. The researcher as well aim to measure the difference between the male and females in their intention to turn into using self-driving car.

The emerge of self-driving cars attract0ed the interest of governments, car companies, researchers and people as well, surveys conducted in this field to report people's intention to use the self-driving cars.

The main research question to fulfil the gap is "To what extent people in United Arab Emirates have the intention to turn into using self-driving car?" This main research question will be addressed through the following research questions:

Q1: To what extent UAE people care about specifications of the self-driving car?

Q2: Does the specifications of the self-driving car impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?

Q8: Does the Gender and Driving Experience associated?

This research aims to study the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car and whether the self-driving car's features affect the user's decision and intention to use this type of cars. Thus, this research hypothesis that there is strong association between the self-driving car's features and people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. Author of this research paper stated the hypothesis of this research as following:

H1: UAE people highly care about the specification of self-driving car

H2: There is significant association between self-driving car's specifications and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H3: There is significant association between self-driving car's features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H4: There is significant association between self-driving car's safety features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H5: There is significant association between self-driving car's performance features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H7: There is significant association between self-driving car's Usefulness features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H8: there is no significant difference between males and females in their intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H9: Driving Experience have positive impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H10: Level of Education is not associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car.

H11: there is significant association between gender and driving experience.

Research hypothesis associated with research questions:

Table 1: Research hypothesis associated with research questions
Research QuestionRelated Hypothesis
Q1: To what extent UAE people care about specifications of the self-driving car?H1: UAE people highly care about the specification of self-driving car
Q2: Does the specifications of the self-driving car impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?H2: There is significant association between self-driving car's specifications and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.
Q3: Does the self-driving car's features impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?H3: There is significant association between self-driving car's features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.
H4: There is significant association between self-driving car's safety features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.
H5: There is significant association between self-driving car's performance features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.
H6: There is significant association between self-driving car's Ease of Use features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.
H7: There is significant association between self-driving car's Usefulness features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.
Q4: To what extent people in United Arab Emirates have the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H8: People in United Arab Emirates have great intention to turn into using self-driving car.
Table 2: Research hypothesis associated with demographic questions:
Demographic QuestionsRelated Hypothesis
Q5: Does the Gender factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H9: there is no significant difference between males and females in their intention to turn into using self-driving car.
Q6: Does the Driving Experience factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H10: Driving Experience have positive impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car.
Q7: Does the Education Level factor associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H11: Level of Education is not associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car.
Q8: Does the Gender and Driving Experience associated?H12: there is significant association between gender and driving experience.

The hypothesis above are tested utilizing bivariate correlation and Regression and other statistical tests. Sections below define the methodology and discuss the results found.

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) utilized as basis for developing conceptual model for this research; Paul Legrisa, John Inghamb, Pierre Collerettec, (2003) stated that Technology Acceptance Model was introduced by Davis, (1989) in order to investigate users' reasons for accepting or rejecting technology, Figure 1 below illustrate Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).

Figure 1: Original Technology Acceptance Model
Figure 1: Original Technology Acceptance Model

For this research paper, Figure 2 illustrates research's conceptual Model. The intention to turn into using self-driving car model for this research paper developed based upon the basic Technology Acceptance Model. In this research paper, researcher identified two factors that affects user's intention to turn into using self-driving car i.e. specifications and features of self-driving car. Researcher aim to investigate whether the UAE people care about self-driving car specifications when intending to buy a car and to what extent they care about these specifications. Researcher identified the specifications as the information, facts and important details about the self-driving cars that most of the regular car companies displayed and proposed for the customers. These specifications are real and available in regular cars as well, such as: system, car outside look, wheels, braking system, engine, luxury and comfort, entertainment, number of passengers and seating. The second factor that is identified by the researcher and affect the intention to turn into using selfdriving car is the features of the car. Researcher identified features based upon the Technology Acceptance Model as it consists of the Ease of Use features, Usefulness features and researcher added the safety and performance features as well, as presented by Figure 2 below. Self-driving features in this research paper represent the expected features in the self-driving car.

Figure 2: Research's conceptual framework
Figure 2: Research's conceptual framework

V. METHODOLOGY

Data utilized in this research paper is gathered through online questionnaire. Before start responding to the questionnaire, respondents must read brief description about the self-driving car. The questionnaire consists of four sections, the first section consists of five demographics i.e. age, gender, level of education, nationality and driving experience, the second section is to measure respondent's interest and care about the self-driving car's specifications, the third section is about self-driving car's features, and the forth section is to measure the respondent's intention to turn into using self-driving car. Questionnaire utilizes seven-point scales. The questionnaire is included in Appendix A.

The questionnaire was sent to number of respondents for testing and checking the accuracy of the questions as well as evaluating the clearness of the questions. The targeted population of the questionnaire is people in United Arab Emirates.

After testing the questionnaire, the questionnaire has been sent into 50 persons and the number of collected responses was 39 responds. Number of males participated in answering the questionnaire was 20 persons, while number of females was 19 persons. The age of the respondents to the questionnaire is up to 59 years old, nobody of 60 years old or above participated in answering the questionnaire. Questionnaire was sent to people of different education levels, but most of the responses were from people holding bachelor's degree. Information about driving experience as well collected from respondents to investigate if the driving experience has impact of respondent's decision to turn into using self-driving car.

Research hypothesis were investigated through statistical experiments in order to answer the three main research questions. Before conducting experiments, it is essential to identify the dependent and independent variables for each of the research questions as follows:

  • For the first research question:

Q1: To what extent UAE people care about specifications of the self-driving car?

Dependent variables: user's interest in self-driving car's specification

Independent variables: Self-Driving car specifications (comfort, luxury, wheels and tires, braking-system, outside look, steering, number of passengers, seating, entertainment, safety system, multi-view technologies, car engine, speed, complete autonomous driving system, partial autonomous driving system)

Group: UAE people.

  • For the second research question

Independent variable: self-driving car specifications (comfort, luxury, wheels and tires, braking-system, outside look, steering, number of passengers, seating, entertainment, safety system, multi-view technologies, car engine, speed, complete autonomous driving system, partial autonomous driving system)

  • For the third research question

Q3: Does the self-driving car's features impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?

Dependent variable: user's intention to turn into using self-driving car

Independent variable: self-driving car features (safety, performance, ease of use, benefits)

Group: UAE people.

  • For the fourth research question:

Q4: To what extent people in United Arab Emirates have the intention to turn into using self-driving car? Dependent variable: intention to turn into using self-driving

Group: UAE people.

  • For the fifth research question:

Q5: Does the Gender factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car? Dependent variable: intention to turn into using self-driving

Group: Male and Female

  • For the sixth research question:

Q6: Does the Driving Experience factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?

Dependent variable: intention to turn into using self-driving

Group: UAE people with different Driving Experience

  • For the seventh research question:

Q7: Does the Education Level factor associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car? Dependent variable: intention to turn into using self-driving

Group: UAE people with different Education Level

The questionnaire questions uploaded into Google Forms to create online survey. Then the created survey was sent to the respondents. After gathering responses, file of responses was downloaded from Google Forms into SPSS software for analyzing results.

VI. DATA ANALYSIS (STATISTICAL TESTS)

Responses were gathered and uploaded into SPSS software for data analysis purposes, number of statistical tests conducted as follows:

a) Construct and scale validity

It is essential to start with construct and scale validity test for the questionnaire. Haradhan Kumar MOHAJAN, (2017) stated that reliability and validity considered as essential and critical for questionnaire evaluation of good research paper. Validity is essential to indicate the finding's truthfulness, while reliability indicate how stable the findings are. The first test researcher started with is construct validity test then scale validity test. Sections below present results of construct and scale validity tests.

i. Construct Validity

Construct validity test conducted to measure whether the construct measured what it supposed to measure. Nigel Norris, (1997) stated that one method for measuring the validity is by checking the bias as human nature may result in some activity failings. Researchers as human may create some failings and mistakes. checking common bias can be used to indicate the validity. Below Table 3 present construct validity test by checking common bias.

Table 3: Construct Validity test to check common bias
ComponentInitial Eigen valuesExtraction Sums of Squared LoadingsRotation Sums of Squared Loadings
Total% of VarianceCumulative%Total% of VarianceCumulative%Total% of VarianceCumulative%
115.71940.30640.30615.71940.30640.30610.35426.55026.550
24.27510.96151.2674.27510.96151.2673.6439.34035.889
32.6496.79358.0592.6496.79358.0593.5729.15945.049
42.1655.55063.6102.1655.55063.6103.1818.15653.205
51.8514.74568.3551.8514.74568.3552.8567.32460.528
61.7054.37172.7261.7054.37172.7262.7477.04367.572
71.2743.26775.9931.2743.26775.9932.3185.94373.515
81.2603.23079.2231.2603.23079.2231.7744.54878.062
91.0192.61281.8351.0192.61281.8351.4713.77381.835
10.9192.35684.192
11.7601.94886.139
12.7441.90788.046
13.6621.69789.744
14.6561.68191.425
15.5261.35092.775
16.4241.08693.861
17.377.96894.828
18.322.82695.654
19.320.82196.475
20.270.69397.168
21.217.55597.723
22.185.47598.198
23.149.38198.579
24.134.34498.923
25.093.24099.163
26.080.20599.367
27.063.16299.530
28.049.12599.655
29.038.09899.753
30.030.07899.831
31.022.05799.888
32.018.04799.935
33.016.04199.976
34.006.01499.990
35.003.00799.997
36.001.00299.999
37.000.001100.000
388.073E-162.070E-15100.000
39-5.243E-16-1.344E-15100.000
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.

Data was checked for common bias; results from Table 3 above show that data in this case loaded on 39 components, and the first component is only explained 26.550 variation of data, therefore there is no common bias in the collected data.

ii. Scale Validity

In this research paper, the developed questionnaire utilizes 7-point Likert scales ranging from Agree Strongly to Disagree Strongly. It is essential to test the scales reliability to ensure the consistency of the questions of the questionnaire. Cronbach's Alpha is the important value to measure in the reliability test as it indicated how questions are interrelated in the questionnaire. The higher the value of Cronbach's Alpha, the more reliability of the scale. Below are tables for scale validity i.e. reliability test.

The basic statistical measures of the constructs (Mean and Standard Deviations) are illustrated in Table 4, Table 7 and Table 10. No missing data has been detected as seen that valid N=39 is similar for all.

Reliability for self-driving car's specification construct's variables:

Table 4: Item statistics
Item Statistics
MeanStd. DeviationN
P1V1comfort6.436.852139
P1V2safetysystem6.795.978239
P1V3luxury6.462.642639
P1V4wheels6.615.906639
P1V5brakingsystem6.846.365539
P1V6look6.436.967839
P1V7passengers6.282.971939
P1V8seating6.564.753839
P1V9entertainment6.282.916239
P1V10multi-view6.205.950939
P1V11engine6.462.884039
P1V12speed6.256.880139
P1V13complete-autonomous5.4361.391639
P1V14partial-autonomous6.231.809939
Table 5: Reliability Statistics - Cronbach's Alpha
Reliability Statistics
Cronbach's AlphaCronbach's Alpha Based on Standardized ItemsN of Items
.771.77314

A reliability analysis was carried out. The scale covering 14 items i.e. construct's attributes. Cronbach's alpha in Table 5 showed the questionnaire to reach

Table 6: Total Reliability Statistics
Item-Total Statistics
Scale Mean if Item DeletedScale Variance if Item DeletedCorrected Item-Total CorrelationSquared Multiple CorrelationCronbach's Alpha if Item Deleted
P1V1comfort82.87240.167-.072.264.796
P1V2safetysystem82.51337.099.173.534.779
P1V3luxury82.84636.239.447.578.755
P1V4wheels82.69234.640.436.696.753
P1V5brakingsystem82.46238.939.228.409.770
P1V6look82.87232.904.565.712.739
P1V7passengers83.02632.710.581.741.737
P1V8seating82.74434.038.626.841.739
P1V9entertainment83.02634.289.465.737.750
P1V10multi-view83.10332.831.585.728.737
P1V11engine82.84635.502.364.777.760
P1V12speed83.05135.260.390.386.757
P1V13complete-autonomous83.87231.220.447.521.755
P1V14partial-autonomous83.07736.915.258.438.768
Table 7: Item statistics
Item Statistics
MeanStd. DeviationN
P2V1safe5.5131.253939
P2V2speed-limit5.6411.135339
P2V3road-rules5.5641.313839
P2V4reduce-accidents5.2051.436039
P2V5safety-encourage5.7181.122739
P2V6reach-destination5.2311.563839
P2V7fuel5.4361.353339
P2V8performane-encourage5.6151.161139
P2V9easy-to-use5.5641.313839
P2V10easy-to-learn5.8971.095339
P2V11easy-encourage5.821.854539
P2V12efficient-destination5.5131.295239
P2V13 benefit-comfort5.9741.012739
P2V14 reliable5.1791.430339
P2V15 benefit-safe5.3331.304539
P2V16 reduce-traffic5.3331.242539
P2V17road-time6.0001.147139
P2V18 reduce-pleasure6.0261.202839
P2V19 benefit-encourage5.7951.472239
Table 8: Reliability Statistics - Cronbach's Alpha
Reliability Statistics
Cronbach's AlphaCronbach's Alpha Based on Standardized ItemsN of Items
.957.95819

A reliability analysis was carried out. The scale covering 19 items i.e. construct's variables. Cronbach's alpha in Table 8 showed the questionnaire to reach high

Table 9: Total Reliability Statistics
Item-Total Statistics
Scale Mean if Item DeletedScale Variance if Item DeletedCorrected Item-Total CorrelationSquared Multiple CorrelationCronbach's Alpha if Item Deleted
P2V1safe100.846289.291.728.844.954
P2V2speed-limit100.718290.366.782.750.954
P2V3road-rules100.795288.536.709.789.955
P2V4reduce-accidents101.154282.660.770.883.954
P2V5safety-encourage100.641293.078.718.909.955
P2V6reach-destination101.128279.536.764.808.954
P2V7fuel100.923289.178.672.872.955
P2V8performane-encourage100.744289.143.796.857.953
P2V9easy-to-use100.795282.588.851.892.952
P2V10easy-to-learn100.462299.045.572.897.956
P2V11easy-encourage100.538300.150.711.826.955
P2V12efficient-destination100.846288.239.728.764.954
P2V13 benefit-comfort100.385295.874.718.872.955
P2V14 reliable101.179282.625.775.807.954
P2V15 benefit-safe101.026284.078.822.936.953
P2V16 reduce-traffic101.026292.920.646.704.956
P2V17road-time100.359293.131.699.837.955
P2V18 reduce-pleasure100.333290.965.719.808.955
P2V19 benefit-encourage100.564291.358.565.674.957
Table 10: Item statistics
Item Statistics
MeanStd. DeviationN
P3V1 willing-pay5.1031.465339
P3V2 lot-benefits5.872.950939
P3V3 recommend-use5.6921.398439
P3V4 ease-of-use5.6921.238739
P3V5 willing-buy5.4101.481839
P3V6 own-idea5.7691.346839
Table 11: Reliability Statistics - Cronbach's Alpha
Reliability Statistics
Cronbach's AlphaCronbach's Alpha Based on Standardized ItemsN of Items
.942.9466
Table 12: Total Reliability Statistics
Item-Total Statistics
Scale Mean if Item DeletedScale Variance if Item DeletedCorrected Item-Total CorrelationSquared Multiple CorrelationCronbach's Alpha if Item Deleted
P3V1 willing-pay28.43633.779.773.620.939
P3V2 lot-benefits27.66738.754.797.703.939
P3V3 recommend-use27.84633.028.878.809.925
P3V4 ease-of-use27.84635.818.792.701.935
P3V5 willing-buy28.12832.062.884.865.924
P3V6 own-idea27.76933.498.884.850.924

Table 12 shows that all items appeared to be worthy of retention, resulting in a decrease in the alpha if deleted.

From construct and validity test it was found that the there is no common bias in the collected data and the reliability test presented high score of Cronbach's Alpha which indicated high degree of reliability.

b) Univariate statistics

Data were collected and organized, the univariate test is simple test conducted in order to explore the data and measure the frequencies of attributes as well as mean, median and mode. Univariate test utilized for description purposes; it doesn't involve finding relationships between data.

In this research paper, questionnaire consists of 39 questions, univariate statistical test carried out for exploring frequencies and description purposes. Appendix B consists of the Univariate Statistics for construct's attributes as well as Univariate Statistics for Demographics. Tables below consists of comparison between frequencies of construct's attributes:

i. Comparison of the percent of each of the specification of self-driving car that user interested in:

When comparing the self-driving car's specifications; statistics presented that respondents highly care about safety specifications. Statistics as well represented the following as seen in Table 13 and Figure 3 below:

  1. Around 95% of respondents care about comfort specifications.

  2. More than 97% of respondents with different degree of agreement care about safety, luxury, braking system, car's outside look, speed, number of passengers, wheels and seating's specifications, engine specifications of self-driving car.

  3. Around 92% of respondents care about entertainment specifications.

  4. Partial-autonomous cars are much preferred than complete autonomous cars.

From all above, it is clear that people highly care about all the specifications of the self-driving car.

Table 13: Self-driving car specifications frequencies
P1V1comfortP1V2safetysystemP1V3luxuryP1V4wheelsP1V5brakingsystemP1V6lookP1V7passengersP1V8seatingP1V9entertainmentP1V10multi-viewP1V11engineP1V12speedP1V13complete-autonomousP1V14partial-autonomous
Strongly Disagree02.6000000000000
Disagree0002.602.62.6000005.10
Slightly Disagree2.6000000002.62.62.65.10
Neutral2.60000002.67.72.60010.32.6
Slightly Agree007.72.607.710.37.77.712.810.312.825.615.4
Agree38.55.138.520.515.428.238.520.533.335.923.138.528.238.5
Agree Strongly56.492.353.874.484.661.548.769.251.346.264.146.225.643.6

Car specification that user interested and care about Figure 3: Self-driving car specifications frequencies ii. Comparison of the percent of each of the user's expectations of self-driving car safety features:

Respondents highly care about safety of self-driving car. Statistics represented the following as seen in Table 14 and Figure 4 below:

  1. More than 84% of respondents believe that self-driving car is safe.

  2. More than 87% of respondents believe that self-driving car will never exceed speed limit.

  3. More than 79% of respondents believe that self-driving car will never break road rules.

  4. More than 69% of respondents believe that self-driving car will reduce car accidents while around 13% disagree that self-driving car will reduce car accidents.

  5. More than 87% of respondents believe that self-driving car safety features have great impact that will encourage people to buy such car.

From all above, people highly believe that self-driving car would be a safe car, and safety features would encourage people to buy such car.

Table 14: Expected safety features frequencies
P2V1safeP2V2speed-limitP2V3road-rulesP2V4reduce-accidentsP2V5safety-encourage
Strongly Disagree2.6002.60
Disagree02.62.602.6
Slightly Disagree2.62.65.110.30
Neutral10.37.712.817.910.3
Slightly Agree28.223.120.517.923.1
Agree35.943.630.833.338.5
Agree Strongly20.520.528.217.925.6
Figure 4: Expected safety features frequencies
Figure 4: Expected safety features frequencies

iii. Comparison of the percent of each of the user's expectations of self-driving car performance:

Respondents have high expectations about performance of self-driving car. Statistics represented the following as seen in Table 15 and Figure 5 below:

  1. More than 74% of respondents believe that self-driving car would efficiently reach destination fast, on the other side, around 15% disagree about this.

  2. 80% of respondents believe that self-driving car will not consume much fuel.

  3. More than 87% of respondents believe that the performance features of self-driving car will encourage them to buy it.

From all above, people highly believe that self-driving car would have great performance, and performance features would encourage people to buy such car.

Table 15: Expected performance features frequencies
P2V6reach-destinationP2V7fuelP2V8performane-encourage
Strongly Disagree2.600
Disagree5.12.62.6
Slightly Disagree7.710.32.6
Neutral10.35.17.7
Slightly Agree20.530.828.2
Agree33.325.635.9
Agree Strongly20.525.623.1
Figure 5: Expected performance features frequencies
Figure 5: Expected performance features frequencies

iv. Comparison of the percent of each of the user's expectations of self-driving car ease of use features:

Respondents have high expectations about Ease of Use features of self-driving car. Statistics represented the following as seen in Table 16 and Figure 6 below:

  1. Around 90% of respondents believe that self-driving car would be easy to use.

  2. Around 95% of respondents believe that they will learn how to use self-driving car fast.

  3. More than 92% of respondents believe that the Ease of Use features of self-driving car will encourage them to buy it.

From all above, people highly believe that self-driving car would be easy to use, and they will learn fast how to use it, people as well believe that Ease of Use features would encourage them to buy such car.

Table 16: Expected Ease of Use features frequencies
P2V9easy-to-useP2V10easy-to-learnP2V11easy-encourage
Strongly Disagree000
Disagree7.72.60
Slightly Disagree02.60
Neutral2.607.7
Slightly Agree30.823.123.1
Agree35.94148.7
Agree Strongly23.130.820.5
Figure 6: Expected Ease of Use features frequencies
Figure 6: Expected Ease of Use features frequencies

v. Comparison of the percent of each of the user's expectations of self-driving usefulness:

Respondents have high expectations about the usefulness of self-driving car. Statistics represented the following as seen in Table 17 and Figure 7 below:

  1. More than 92% of respondents believe that self-driving car would provide comfort to them.

  2. More than 74% of respondents believe that self-driving car would be reliable car and it would reduce traffic jam.

  3. More than 87% of respondents believe that self-driving car will reduce the pressure due to driving.

  4. More than 87% of respondents believe that the benefits of self-driving car will encourage them to buy it.

From all above, people highly believe that self-driving car would provide benefits to them and these usefulness features would encourage them to buy such car.

Table 17: Expected Usefulness features frequencies
P2V12efficient-destinationP2V13 benefit-comfortP2V14 reliableP2V15 benefit-safeP2V16 reduce-trafficP2V17road-timeP2V18 reduce-pressureP2V19 benefit-encourage
Strongly Disagree2.6002.60002.6
Disagree007.72.6002.62.6
Slightly Disagree2.62.65.107.75.105.1
Neutral12.85.112.815.417.95.110.32.6
Slightly Agree25.620.528.228.230.817.912.815.4
Agree33.335.928.235.920.528.228.233.3
Agree Strongly23.135.917.915.423.143.646.238.5
Figure 7: Expected Usefulness features frequencies
Figure 7: Expected Usefulness features frequencies

vi. Comparison of the percent of the attributes of the people's intention to turn into using self-driving car construct:

Respondents have high intention to turn into using self-driving car. Statistics represented the following as seen in Table 18 and Figure 8 below:

  1. More than 71% of respondents are willing to pay even more for the self-driving car while around 13% disagree about this.

  2. 77% of respondents would recommend using self-driving car.

  3. More than 87% think that owning self-driving car is a good idea even that only 77% of respondents have the intention to buy self-driving car in the future while around 10% haven't the intention to buy such car in the future.

From all above, people in UAE have great intention to turn into using self-driving car in the future.

Table 18: Intention to turn into using self-driving car frequencies
P3V1 willing-payP3V2 lot-benefitsP3V3 recommend-useP3V4 ease-of-useP3V5 willing-buyP3V6 own-idea
Strongly Disagree2.602.6002.6
Disagree2.6002.67.70
Slightly Disagree10.3002.62.62.6
Neutral12.810.320.510.312.87.7
Slightly Agree25.620.515.423.123.125.6
Agree30.84123.130.825.623.1
Agree Strongly15.428.238.530.828.238.5

Intention to turn into using self-driving car attributes Figure 8: Intention to turn into using self-driving car frequencies

c) Results of Research Questions and Hypothesis Testing

In order to investigate the answer for the research questions and testing the defined hypothesis for the research, number of statistical tests are conducted as presented below:

i. Frequency test to measure UAE people interest about self-driving car's specifications:

Q1: To what extent UAE people care about specifications of the self-driving car?

H1: UAE people highly care about the specification of self-driving car.

When comparing the self-driving car's specifications; statistics presented that respondents highly care about self-driving car's specifications. Statistics as well represented the following as seen in Table 19 and Figure 9 below:

  1. Around 95% of respondents care about comfort specifications.

  2. More than 97% of respondents with different degree of agreement care about safety, luxury, braking system, car's outside look, speed, number of passengers, wheels and seating's specifications, engine specifications of self-driving car.

  3. Around 92% of respondents care about entertainment specifications.

  4. Partial-autonomous cars are much preferred than complete autonomous cars.

From all above, it is clear that UAE people highly care about all the specifications of the self-driving car, Thus Hypothesis H1 is accepted.

Table 19: Specifications of self-driving car that UAE people car about
P1V1comfortP1V2safetysystemP1V3luxuryP1V4wheelsP1V5brakingsystemP1V6lookP1V7passengersP1V8seatingP1V9entertainmentP1V10multi-viewP1V11engineP1V12speedP1V13complete-autonomousP1V14partial-autonomous
Strongly Disagree02.6000000000000
Disagree0002.602.62.6000005.10
Slightly Disagree2.6000000002.62.62.65.10
Neutral2.60000002.67.72.60010.32.6
Slightly Agree007.72.607.710.37.77.712.810.312.825.615.4
Agree38.55.138.520.515.428.238.520.533.335.923.138.528.238.5
Agree Strongly56.492.353.874.484.661.548.769.251.346.264.146.225.643.6
Figure 9: Specifications of self-driving car that UAE people car about
Figure 9: Specifications of self-driving car that UAE people car about

ii. Correlation test and Regression test to measure the relationship between self-driving car's specification and people's intention to turn into using self-driving car:

Q2: Does the specifications of the self-driving car impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?

Correlation Test:

H2: There is significant association between self-driving car's specifications and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

For this research question, global variables identified as following: INT: intention into using self-driving car SPC: specification of self-driving car

Table 20: Correlation test
Correlations
INTSPC
INTPearson Correlation1.383*
Sig. (2-tailed).016
N3939
SPCPearson Correlation.383*1
Sig. (2-tailed).016
N3939
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

A Bivariate correlation test was conducted as seen in the table 20 above. Correlation test was carried out to check if there is association between Intention to turn into using self-driving car (INT) and specification (SPC) of self-driving car at (0.05) level, findings are:

  • The correlation between features (SPC) and intention (INT) is intermediate = 0.383, i.e. 0.25≤r<0.75 and positive

The results show that there is an intermediate positive relationship between the constructs (Global Variables) along with intermediate correlation. So, the above suggested Hypotheses H2 is accepted.

Regression test conducted to whether the specifications of self-driving car could predict the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.

Intermediate positive correlation exists between the self-driving car's specifications and the people's intention to turn into using self-driving car (R=.383) and the regression model predicted 14% of the variance. In other words, UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car is intermediately predicted by self-driving car's specifications as seen in Table 21 below.

Table 21: Regression Model Summary
Model Summaryb
ModelRR SquareAdjusted R SquareStd. Error of the EstimateChange Statistics
R Square ChangeF Changedf1df2Sig. F Change
1.383a.147.1246.55839.1476.376137.016
a. Predictors: (Constant), SPC
b. Dependent Variable: INT

As seen in table 22 below, the regression model can predict the dependent variable (INT) by checking the regression row and the (Sig) column it is clear that the statistical significance of the regression model that

Table 22: Analysis of Variance for intention to use self-driving car based on its specifications
ANOVAa
ModelSum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig.
1Regression274.2311274.2316.376.016b
Residual1591.4623743.012
Total1865.69238
a. Dependent Variable: INT
b. Predictors: (Constant), SPC

Also, Table 23 below shows that the for the independent variable (SPC), the probability for the t statistic (2.525) for b coefficient is.016 which is less than the level of significance (.05). So, there is a statistically significant relationship between the specifications of the self-driving car and the intention to use that car. Therefore, H2 is accepted. Also, b coefficient that associated with SPC (.383) is positive and implies that the better the specifications of the self-driving car the higher intention of the user to turn into using self-driving car.

Table 23: Coefficients of intention to use self-driving car based on its specifications
Coefficientsa
ModelUnstandardized CoefficientsStandardized CoefficientstSig.95.0% Confidence Interval for BCollinearity Statistics
BStd. ErrorBetaLower BoundUpper BoundToleranceVIF
1(Constant)-4.34215.039-.289.774-34.81326.130
SPC.424.168.3832.525.016.084.7651.0001.000
a. Dependent Variable: INT

iii. Correlation test and Regression test to measure the relationship between self-driving car's features and people's intention to turn into using self-driving car:

Q3: Does the self-driving car's features impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?

For this research question, global variables identified as following:

FET: expected features of self-driving car SFET: expected Safety features of self-driving car PFET: expected Performance features of self-driving car Correlation Test:

EFET: expected Ease of Use features of self-driving car BFET: expected Usefulness features of self-driving car INT: intention into using self-driving car

Table 24: Correlation for features of self-driving car and intention to use the car
Correlations
FETSFETPFETEFETBFETINT
FETPearson Correlation1.882**.823**.812**.939**.856**
Sig. (2-tailed).000.000.000.000.000
N393939393939
SFETPearson Correlation.882**1.676**.638**.760**.741**
Sig. (2-tailed).000.000.000.000.000
N393939393939
PFETPearson Correlation.823**.676**1.556**.711**.686**
Sig. (2-tailed).000.000.000.000.000
N393939393939
EFETPearson Correlation.812**.638**.556**1.760**.787**
Sig. (2-tailed).000.000.000.000.000
N393939393939
BFETPearson Correlation.939**.760**.711**.760**1.772**
Sig. (2-tailed).000.000.000.000.000
N393939393939
INTPearson Correlation.856**.741**.686**.787**.772**1
Sig. (2-tailed).000.000.000.000.000
N393939393939
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

A Bivariate correlation test was conducted as seen in the table24. Correlation test was carried out to check if there is association between Intention to turn into using self-driving car (INT) and features (FET), safety features (SFET), performance features (PFET), ease of use features (EFET) and usefulness (BFET) of self-driving car at (0.01) level, findings are:

  • The correlation between features (FET) and intention (INT) is strong = 0.856, i.e. 0≤75 < 1 and positive

  • The correlation between safety (SFET) and intention (INT) is intermediate = 0.741, i.e. 0.25 r < 0.75 and positive

  • The correlation between performance (PFET) and intention (INT) is intermediate = 0.686, i.e. 0.25≤r<0.75 and positive

  • The correlation between ease of use (EFET) and intention (INT) is strong = 0.787, i.e. 0.75≤r<1 and positive

  • The correlation between usefulness (BFET) and intention (INT) is strong = 0.772, i.e. 0.75 r < 1 and positive

The results show that there is a strong positive relationship between all of the constructs (Global Variables) along with strong correlation. So, the above suggested Hypotheses are all accepted, and all the null Hypotheses were rejected.

Regression Test:

Regression test conducted to whether the features of self-driving car could predict the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. Strong positive correlation exists between the self-driving car's features and the people's intention to turn into using self-driving car (R=.875) and the regression model predicted 76% of the variance. In other words, UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car is strongly predicted by self-driving car's features as seen in Table 25 below.

Table 25: Regression Model Summary
Model Summaryb
ModelRR SquareAdjusted R SquareStd. Error of the EstimateChange Statistics
R Square ChangeF Changedf1df2Sig. F Change
1.875a.766.7313.63367.76621.660533.000
a. Predictors: (Constant), BFET, PFET, EFET, SFET, FET
b. Dependent Variable: INT

As seen in table 26 below, the regression model can predict the dependent variable (INT) efficiently by checking the regression row and the (Sig) column it is clear that the statistical significance of the regression model that was run; Here, p < 0.05, and indicates that, overall, the regression model can significantly predict the outcome variable.

Table 26: Analysis of Variance for intention to use self-driving car based on
ANOVAa
ModelSum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig.
1Regression1429.9745285.99521.660.000b
Residual435.7183313.204
Total1865.69238
a. Dependent Variable: INT
b. Predictors: (Constant), BFET, PFET, EFET, SFET, FET

Also, Table 27 below shows that the for the independent variable (FET), the probability for the t statistic (10.054) for b coefficient is.000 which is less than the level of significance (.05). So, there is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived features of the self-driving car and the intention to use that car. Therefore, H3 is accepted. Also, b coefficient that associated with FET (.856) is positive and implies that the much excellent features of the self-driving car the higher intention of the user to turn into using self-driving car.

Table 27: Coefficients of intention to use self-driving car based on car's features
Coefficientsa
ModelUnstandardized CoefficientsStandardized CoefficientstSig.95.0% Confidence Interval for BCollinearity Statistics
BStd. ErrorBetaLower BoundUpper BoundToleranceVIF
1(Constant)-2.0003.583-.558.580-9.2615.261
FET.334.033.85610.054.000.267.4011.0001.000
a. Dependent Variable: INT

Also, Table 28 below shows that the for the independent variable (SFET), the probability for the t statistic (6.717) for b coefficient is.000 which is less than the level of significance (.05). So, there is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived features of the self-driving car and the intention to use that car. Therefore, H4 is accepted. Also, b coefficient that associated with FET (.741) is positive and implies that the much excellent Safety features of the self-driving car the higher intention of the user to turn into using self-driving car.

Table 28: Coefficients of intention to use self-driving car based on car's safety features
Coefficientsa
ModelUnstandardized CoefficientsStandardized CoefficientstSig.95.0% Confidence Interval for BCollinearity Statistics
BStd. ErrorBetaLower BoundUpper BoundToleranceVIF
1(Constant)8.4193.8172.206.034.68516.152
SFET1.146.171.7416.717.000.8001.4911.0001.000
a. Dependent Variable: INT

Also, Table 29 below shows that the for the independent variable (PFET), the probability for the t statistic (5.733) for b coefficient is.000 which is less than the level of significance (.05). So, there is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived features of the self-driving car and the intention to use that car. Therefore, H5 is accepted. Also, b coefficient that associated with FET (.686) is positive and implies that the much excellent Performance features of the self-driving car the higher intention of the user to turn into using self-driving car.

Table 29: Coefficients of intention to use self-driving car based on car's Performance features
Coefficientsa
ModelUnstandardized CoefficientsStandardized CoefficientstSig.95.0% Confidence Interval for BCollinearity Statistics
BStd. ErrorBetaLower BoundUpper BoundToleranceVIF
1(Constant)14.4713.4274.222.0007.52621.415
PFET1.788.312.6865.733.0001.1562.4191.0001.000
a. Dependent Variable: INT

Also, Table 30 below shows that the for the independent variable (EFET), the probability for the t statistic (7.765) for b coefficient is.000 which is less than the level of significance (.05). So, there is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived features of the self-driving car and the intention to use that car. Therefore, H6 is accepted. Also, b coefficient that associated with FET (.787) is positive and implies that the much excellent Ease of Use features of the self-driving car the higher intention of the user to turn into using self-driving car.

Table 30: Coefficients of intention to use self-driving car based on car's Ease of Use features
Coefficientsa
ModelUnstandardized CoefficientsStandardized CoefficientstSig.95.0% Confidence Interval for BCollinearity Statistics
BStd. ErrorBetaLower BoundUpper BoundToleranceVIF
1(Constant)5.2423.7111.413.166-2.27712.762
EFET2.469.318.7877.765.0001.8253.1131.0001.000
a. Dependent Variable: INT

Also, Table 31 below shows that the for the independent variable (BFET), the probability for the t statistic (7.386) for b coefficient is.000 which is less than the level of significance (.05). So, there is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived features of the self-driving car and the intention to use that car. Therefore, H7 is accepted. Also, b coefficient that associated with FET (.772) is positive and implies that the much excellent Usefulness features of the self-driving car the higher intention of the user to turn into using self-driving car.

Table 31: Coefficients of intention to use self-driving car based on car's Usefulness features
Coefficientsa
ModelUnstandardized CoefficientsStandardized CoefficientstSig.95.0% Confidence Interval for BCollinearity Statistics
BStd. ErrorBetaLower BoundUpper BoundToleranceVIF
1(Constant)3.1834.173.763.450-5.27211.637
BFET.771.104.7727.386.000.560.9831.0001.000
a. Dependent Variable: INT

iv. Frequency test to measure UAE people intention to turn into using self-driving car:

Q4: To what extent people in United Arab Emirates have the intention to turn into using self-driving car?

H8: People in United Arab Emirates have great intention to turn into using self-driving car.

Results presented that UAE people have high intention to turn into using self-driving car. Statistics represented the following as seen in Table 32 and Figure 10 below:

  1. More than 71% of respondents are willing to pay even more for the self-driving car while around 13% disagree about this.

  2. 77% of respondents would recommend using self-driving car.

  3. More than 87% think that owning self-driving car is a good idea even that only 77% of respondents have the intention to buy self-driving car in the future while around 10% haven't the intention to buy such car in the future.

From all above, people in UAE have great intention to turn into using self-driving car in the future. Thus, Hypothesis H8 is accepted.

Table 32: UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car
P3V1 willing-payP3V2 lot-benefitsP3V3 recommend-useP3V4 ease-of-useP3V5 willing-buyP3V6 own-idea
Strongly Disagree2.602.6002.6
Disagree2.6002.67.70
Slightly Disagree10.3002.62.62.6
Neutral12.810.320.510.312.87.7
Slightly Agree25.620.515.423.123.125.6
Agree30.84123.130.825.623.1
Agree Strongly15.428.238.530.828.238.5
Figure 10: UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car
Figure 10: UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car

v. T-Test to investigate whether the gender factor have different impact on the intention to use self-driving car:

Q5: Does the Gender factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?

H9: there is no significant difference between males and females in their intention to turn into using self-driving car.

T-Test conducted to compare the intention to turn into using self-driving car based on the gender. An independent samples test was carried out to compare the intention to turn into using self-driving car based on gender. As seen in table 33 and table 34 There is no significant difference in the intention between Male and Female, t(39)=−0.533, p > 0.05, two tailed with Female (M = 34.1579, SD = 7.80501) have slight higher intention to turn into using self-driving car than Male (M = 32.9500, SD = 6.30351). The magnitude of the difference in the means (mean difference 34.1579 - 32.9500 = 1.2079, 95% CI: -5.79966 to 3.38387) was small (eta squared = 0.0076). Since there is no significant difference in the intention between Male and Female to turn into using self-driving car, therefore, H9 is accepted.

Table 33: Simple statistics of intention to turn into using self-driving car based on gender
Group Statistics
GenderNMeanStd. DeviationStd. Error Mean
INTMale2032.95006.303511.40951
Female1934.15797.805011.79059
Table 34: Independent sample T test of intention to turn into using self-driving car based on gender
Independent Samples Test
Levene's Test for Equality of Variancest-test for Equality of Means
FSig.tdfSig. (2-tailed)Mean DifferenceStd. Error Difference95% Confidence Interval of the Difference
LowerUpper
INTEqual variances assumed.094.761-.53337.597-1.207892.26620-5.799663.38387
Equal variances not assumed-.53034.624.599-1.207892.27880-5.835903.42011

vi. Anova test to investigate whether the Driving Experience factor have different impact on the intention to use self-driving car:

Q6: Does the Driving Experience factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?

Table 35: Descriptive statistics of UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car based on Driving Experience
Descriptives
INT
NMeanStd. DeviationStd. Error95% Confidence Interval for MeanMinimumMaximum
Lower BoundUpper Bound
Never433.25005.315072.6575424.792541.707527.0040.00
Less than 5 years535.40005.549772.4819328.509042.291028.0042.00
5-9239.50003.535532.500007.734571.265537.0042.00
10-14635.00009.011103.6787725.543444.456620.0042.00
15 - 201333.15388.473942.3502528.033138.274614.0042.00
More than 20 years930.88895.134311.7114426.942334.835521.0036.00
Total3933.53857.006941.1220131.267135.809814.0042.00
Table 36: Analysis of variance for intention to turn into using self-driving car based on Driving Experience
ANOVA
INT
Sum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig.
Between Groups166.661533.332.647.665
Within Groups1699.0313351.486
Total1865.69238

One-way between groups analysis of variance was conducted to explore the impact of Driving Experience on the intention to turn into self-driving car. Participant were divided into six groups as the following (Never, Less than 5, 5-9, 10-14, 15-20, More than 20). We can see that the significance values 0.998, 0.913, 0.999, 0.994, 0.983, 0.991, 0.867, 0.971, 0.850, 0.645, 0.995, 0.883, 0.997 and 1.000 (i.e., p= values 0.998,

0.913, 0.999, 0.994, 0.983, 0.991, 0.867, 0.971, 0.850, 0.645, 0.995, 0.883, 0.997 and 1.000) which is above 0.05 as seen in table 37 below. Therefore, there is no statistically significant difference in the rating of intention to turn into using self-driving car based on the Driving Experience of the respondents. Thus, hypothesis H10 is rejected.

Table 37: Multiple comparisons for the intention to turn into using self-driving car based on Driving Experience
Multiple Comparisons
Dependent Variable: INT
Tukey HSD
(I) Driving Experience(J) Driving ExperienceMean Difference (I-J)Std. ErrorSig.95% Confidence Interval
Lower BoundUpper Bound
NeverLess than 5 years-2.150004.81338.998-16.703412.4034
5-9-6.250006.21404.913-25.038412.5384
10-14-1.750004.63168.999-15.754012.2540
15 - 20.096154.102671.000-12.308412.5007
More than 20 years2.361114.31185.994-10.675915.3981
Less than 5 yearsNever2.150004.81338.998-12.403416.7034
5-9-4.100006.00334.983-22.251314.0513
10-14.400004.344901.000-12.736913.5369
15 - 202.246153.77592.991-9.170513.6628
More than 20 years4.511114.00222.867-7.589716.6120
5-9Never6.250006.21404.913-12.538425.0384
Less than 5 years4.100006.00334.983-14.051322.2513
10-144.500005.85866.971-13.213822.2138
15 - 206.346155.45008.850-10.132322.8246
More than 20 years8.611115.60924.645-8.348625.5708
10-14Never1.750004.63168.999-12.254015.7540
Less than 5 years-.400004.344901.000-13.536912.7369
5-9-4.500005.85866.971-22.213813.2138
15 - 201.846153.54139.995-8.861312.5536
More than 20 years4.111113.78175.883-7.323115.5453
15 - 20Never-.096154.102671.000-12.500712.3084
Less than 5 years-2.246153.77592.991-13.66289.1705
5-9-6.346155.45008.850-22.824610.1323
10-14-1.846153.54139.995-12.55368.8613
More than 20 years2.264963.11144.977-7.142611.6725
More than 20 yearsNever-2.361114.31185.994-15.398110.6759
Less than 5 years-4.511114.00222.867-16.61207.5897
5-9-8.611115.60924.645-25.57088.3486
10-14-4.111113.78175.883-15.54537.3231
15 - 20-2.264963.11144.977-11.67257.1426

Q7: Does the Education Level factor associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car?

H11: Level of Education is not associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car.

A Bivariate correlation test was conducted as seen in the table 38 below. Correlation test was carried out to check if there is association between Intention to turn into using self-driving car (INT) and the Education level, test presented that:

Table 38: Correlation for Education Level and intention to use the car
Correlations
EducationINT
EducationPearson Correlation1.175
Sig. (2-tailed).287
N3939
INTPearson Correlation.1751
Sig. (2-tailed).287
N3939

viii. Chi-squared test to investigate whether there is association between gender and Driving Experience:

H12: there is significant association between gender and driving experience.

The sample size is less than 40, i.e. 39 so the smallest expected frequency is at least 5. Chi-Square test can be used to compare if there is an observed frequency distribution with an expected frequency distribution. Chi-Square test will be used to compare if there is observed frequency between driving experience and gender within the population.

Table 39 displays how gender is associated with driving experience.

Table 39: Crosstabs (Gender*Driving Experience)
Gender * Driving Experience Crosstabulation
Driving ExperienceTotal
NeverLess than 5 years5-910-1415 - 20More than 20 years
GenderMaleCount00138820
% within Gender0.0%0.0%5.0%15.0%40.0%40.0%100.0%
% within Driving Experience0.0%0.0%50.0%50.0%61.5%88.9%51.3%
% of Total0.0%0.0%2.6%7.7%20.5%20.5%51.3%
FemaleCount45135119
% within Gender21.1%26.3%5.3%15.8%26.3%5.3%100.0%
% within Driving Experience100.0%100.0%50.0%50.0%38.5%11.1%48.7%
% of Total10.3%12.8%2.6%7.7%12.8%2.6%48.7%
TotalCount452613939
% within Gender10.3%12.8%5.1%15.4%33.3%23.1%100.0%
% within Driving Experience100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%
% of Total10.3%12.8%5.1%15.4%33.3%23.1%100.0%

When interpreting results from table 40 below, results of Pearson Chi-Square row shows that x(2)=15.121, corresponding to p<0.05 (note: the Asymptotic Significance (2-sided) value in this row, 0.010, is the p value rounded to 5 decimal places and should not be quoted in this form. Since p is less than 0.05 then there is an evidence of strong relationship between the gender and driving experience. This indicates that there is statistically significant association between Gender and Driving Experience.

Table 40: Chi-Square tests
Chi-Square Tests
ValuedfAsymptotic Significance (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square15.121a5.010
Likelihood Ratio19.3475.002
Linear-by-Linear Association13.8951.000
N of Valid Cases39
a. 10 cells (83.3%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is.97.

Phi and Cramer's are both tests of the strength of association. From table 41 below, we can see that the strength of the association between variables is moderate and significant. P is less than 0.05 then hypothesis H12 is accepted.

Table 41: Symmetric Measure to examine strength of association VII. FINDINGS
Symmetric Measures
ValueApproximate Significance
Nominal by NominalPhi.623.010
Cramer's V.623.010
N of Valid Cases39

Statistical Analysis conducted in previous section in order to answer research questions as well as examining hypothesis, table below present whether the hypothesis accepted or rejected:

Table 42: Findings of research questions and related hypothesis
Research QuestionRelated Hypothesis
Q1: To what extent UAE people care about specifications of the self-driving car?H1: UAE people highly care about the specification of self-driving car(Accepted)
Q2: Does the specifications of the self-driving car impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?H2: There is significant association between self-driving car's specifications and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
Q3: Does the self-driving car's features impact the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car?H3: There is significant association between self-driving car's features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
H4: There is significant association between self-driving car's safety features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. (Accepted)
H5: There is significant association between self-driving car's performance features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
H6: There is significant association between self-driving car's Ease of Use features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
H7: There is significant association between self-driving car's Usefulness features and the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
Q4: To what extent people in United Arab Emirates have the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H8: People in United Arab Emirates have great intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
Table 43: Findings of demographic questions and related hypothesis
Demographic QuestionsRelated Hypothesis
Q5: Does the Gender factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H9: there is no significant difference between males and females in their intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Accepted)
Q6: Does the Driving Experience factor have different impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H10: Driving Experience have positive impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Rejected)
Q7: Does the Education Level factor associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car?H11: Level of Education is not associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car.(Rejected)
Q8: Does the Gender and Driving Experience associated?H112: there is significant association between gender and driving experience.(Accepted)

Statistical Analysis conducted as well for construct and scale validity; it was found that the there is no common bias in the collected data and the reliability test presented high score of Cronbach's Alpha which indicated high degree of reliability.

Univariate statistical test carried out for exploring frequencies and description purposes and results reported in previous section.

VIII. Discussion

In this research paper, Technology Acceptance Model modified by the author of this research paper to include additional constructs. The aim of this research paper to investigate the validity of the modified model in case for the acceptance of self-driving car in United Arab Emirates as the research main purpose is to investigate the intention of UAE people to turn into using self-driving car.

Statistical tests for answering first research question presented that UAE people highly care about the specifications of self-driving car. Responses showed that each of the specifications is important, but the most important specifications are safety, luxury, system, wheels and car's outside look. This result indicated that people are in UAE become more aware about their rights as customers to know about the product's specifications. People as well become more knowledgeable about the importance of each of the specifications of the self-driving car.

Results from statistical tests for answering second research question presented that self-driving car's specification is associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car.

Results from statistical tests for answering third research question presented that self-driving car's features have strong positive impact on the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. This result is compatible with the Technology Acceptance Model that was introduced by Davis as stated by Paul Legrisa, John Inghamb, Pierre Collerettec, (2003). The Ease of Use features are strongly associated with the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. Results presented as well that the Usefulness features are strongly associated with the UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. These results are consistent with the Technology acceptance Model. Author of this research paper investigated Safety features and performance features effects, and results presented that both of the defined features strongly associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car. Hence, self-driving car's features are strongly associated with the intention to turn into using self-driving car. The features of self-driving car have stronger impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car than the specification does.

Fourth research question results presented that people in United Arab Emirates have high intention to turn into using self-driving car as results showed that people are willing to pay even more for the self-driving car, they would recommend using self-driving car for others and they think that owning such car is a good idea. This Result is consistent and compatible with the Technology Acceptance Model as the features of self-driving car positively impacted the people's intention to use the car.

Statistical tests conducted to answer fifth research question and results showed that there is no significant difference in the intention between Male and Female to turn into using self-driving car. Therefore, the gender factor has no impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car. Statistical tests for answering sixth research question presented that Driving Experience as well has no impact on the intention to turn into using-self-driving car.

Seventh research question results showed that the Education Level slightly impact the people's intention to turn into using-self-driving car. Hence from all above statistical experiments conducted, the features as well as specifications of self-driving car is strongly associated with the intention to turn into using the car, hence the features and specifications of self-driving car impacted UAE people's intention to accept and turn into using such car and this result consistent and compatible with the Technology Acceptance Mode. Below is the updated conceptual research model.

Figure 11: Adjusted conceptual model for research
Figure 11: Adjusted conceptual model for research

Figure 11 above illustrated findings of this research paper, i.e. both the specifications of self-driving car as well as the features impacted the intention to turn into using self-driving car. The features of self-driving car have stronger impact on the intention to turn into using self-driving car than the specification does.

IX. CONCLUSION

The emergence of self-driving cars has raised the interest of the media as well as individuals in it and how reliable and what benefits the user may get when using this type of car. Although the self-driving car may provide huge benefits to the user compared to the traditional car that the user drive, the people perception to turn into using this type of car may vary as some users prefer to engage in driving by themselves. This research paper aim to explore UAE people's intention to turn into using self-driving car. To explore the research aim, based upon standard Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), author of this research paper adjusted TAM by adding new constructs. Quantitative methodology followed in this research paper and questionnaire was prepared and sent to respondents i.e. people live in UAE. Results presented that UAE people have high intention to turn into using self-driving car. Results presented as well that both specifications and features of self-driving car have great impact on people's intention to use the car and this result consistent with TAM. It is recommended for future research to investigate the infrastructure requirements for the adoption of self-driving car, and the impacts of the adoption of self-driving car as well.

APPENDIX B

a) Univariate Statistics for Demographics:

i. Descriptive Statistics: Demographics

The responses showed that percentage of Male respondent is (51.3%) which slightly bigger than Female respondent's percentage that is (48.7%) as seen in (Table 44 and figure15).

Table 44: Gender Frequency in the population
Gender
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidMale2051.351.351.3
Female1948.748.7100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Figure 15: Presentation of Gender in the population
Figure 15: Presentation of Gender in the population

The responses showed that most of the respondents are between 30 and 49 years old, and only few respondents of age (50-59) participated in the survey of (7.7%) as seen in table 45 and figure 16 below.

Table 45: Age Frequency in the population
Age
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidLess than 301025.625.625.6
30-391333.333.359.0
40-491333.333.392.3
50-5937.77.7100.0
Total39100.0100.0

Age Figure 16: Presentation of Age in the population

The responses showed that people with bachelor's degree are the most respondents (64.1%) as shown in figure 17 and table 46.

Table 46: Level of Education Frequency in the population
Education
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidPHD25.15.15.1
Master923.123.128.2
Bachelor2564.164.192.3
Diploma12.62.694.9
Highschool25.15.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Figure 17: Presentation of Level of Education in the population
Figure 17: Presentation of Level of Education in the population

ii. Descriptive Statistics: Driving Experience

The responses showed that the majority (32.5%) of respondents have driving experience of 15 to 20 years, while only (7.5%) of respondents have driving experience of 5 to 9 years as seen in (Table 47 and figure 18) below.

Table 47: Driving Experience Frequency in the population
Driving Experience
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidNever410.310.310.3
Less than 5 years512.812.823.1
5-925.15.128.2
10-14615.415.443.6
15 - 201333.333.376.9
More than 20 years923.123.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0

Driving Experience

Figure 18: Presentation of driving experience in the population
Figure 18: Presentation of driving experience in the population

iii. Descriptive Statistics: Nationality

The majority of respondent's nationality is UAE of (95%) while only (5%) of the respondents from Middle East as seen in (Table 48 and figure 19 below).

Table 48: Nationality Frequency in the population
Nationality
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidUAE3895.095.095.0
Middle East25.05.0100.0
Total40100.0100.0
Figure 19: Presentation of Nationality of the population
Figure 19: Presentation of Nationality of the population

iv. Univariate Statistics for construct's variables:

a. Univariate Statistics for the attributes of the construct: specifications of self-driving car that user cares about:

Table 49: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V1comfort
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree12.62.62.6
Neutral12.62.65.1
Agree1538.538.543.6
Agree Strongly2256.456.4100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 50: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V2safetysystem
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Agree25.15.17.7
Agree Strongly3692.392.3100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 51: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V3luxury
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Agree37.77.77.7
Agree1538.538.546.2
Agree Strongly2153.853.8100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 52: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V4wheels
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree12.62.65.1
Agree820.520.525.6
Agree Strongly2974.474.4100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 53: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V5brakingsystem
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidAgree615.415.415.4
Agree Strongly3384.684.6100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 54: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V6look
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree37.77.710.3
Agree1128.228.238.5
Agree Strongly2461.561.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 55: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V7passengers
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree410.310.312.8
Agree1538.538.551.3
Agree Strongly1948.748.7100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 56: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V8seating
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidNeutral12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree37.77.710.3
Agree820.520.530.8
Agree Strongly2769.269.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 57: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies:
P1V9entertainment
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidNeutral37.77.77.7
Slightly Agree37.77.715.4
Agree1333.333.348.7
Agree Strongly2051.351.3100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 58: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V10multi-view
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree12.62.62.6
Neutral12.62.65.1
Slightly Agree512.812.817.9
Agree1435.935.953.8
Agree Strongly1846.246.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
P1V11engine
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree410.310.312.8
Agree923.123.135.9
Agree Strongly2564.164.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 59: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V12speed
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree512.812.815.4
Agree1538.538.553.8
Agree Strongly1846.246.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 60: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P1V13complete-autonomous
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree25.15.15.1
Sightly Disagree25.15.110.3
Neutral410.310.320.5
Slightly Agree1025.625.646.2
Agree1128.228.274.4
Agree Strongly1025.625.6100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 61: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies b. Univariate Statistics for the attributes of the construct: features of self-driving car that user interested in:
P1V14partial-autonomous
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidNeutral12.62.62.6
Slightly Agree615.415.417.9
Agree1538.538.556.4
Agree Strongly1743.643.6100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 62: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V1safe
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral410.310.315.4
Slightly Agree1128.228.243.6
Agree1435.935.979.5
Agree Strongly820.520.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 63: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V2speed-limit
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral37.77.712.8
Slightly Agree923.123.135.9
Agree1743.643.679.5
Agree Strongly820.520.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 64: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V3road-rules
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree25.15.17.7
Neutral512.812.820.5
Slightly Agree820.520.541.0
Agree1230.830.871.8
Agree Strongly1128.228.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 65: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V4reduce-accidents
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree410.310.312.8
Neutral717.917.930.8
Slightly Agree717.917.948.7
Agree1333.333.382.1
Agree Strongly717.917.9100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 66: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V5safety-encourage
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Neutral410.310.312.8
Slightly Agree923.123.135.9
Agree1538.538.574.4
Agree Strongly1025.625.6100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 67: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V6reach-destination
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Disagree25.15.17.7
Slightly Disagree37.77.715.4
Neutral410.310.325.6
Slightly Agree820.520.546.2
Agree1333.333.379.5
Agree Strongly820.520.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 68: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V7fuel
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree410.310.312.8
Neutral25.15.117.9
Slightly Agree1230.830.848.7
Agree1025.625.674.4
Agree Strongly1025.625.6100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 69: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V8performane-encourage
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral37.77.712.8
Slightly Agree1128.228.241.0
Agree1435.935.976.9
Agree Strongly923.123.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 70: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V9easy-to-use
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree37.77.77.7
Neutral12.62.610.3
Slightly Agree1230.830.841.0
Agree1435.935.976.9
Agree Strongly923.123.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 71: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V10easy-to-learn
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Slightly Agree923.123.128.2
Agree1641.041.069.2
Agree Strongly1230.830.8100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 72: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V11easy-encourage
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidNeutral37.77.77.7
Slightly Agree923.123.130.8
Agree1948.748.779.5
Agree Strongly820.520.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 73: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V12efficient-destination
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral512.812.817.9
Slightly Agree1025.625.643.6
Agree1333.333.376.9
Agree Strongly923.123.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 74: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V13 benefit-comfort
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree12.62.62.6
Neutral25.15.17.7
Slightly Agree820.520.528.2
Agree1435.935.964.1
Agree Strongly1435.935.9100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 75: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V14 reliable
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree37.77.77.7
Slightly Disagree25.15.112.8
Neutral512.812.825.6
Slightly Agree1128.228.253.8
Agree1128.228.282.1
Agree Strongly717.917.9100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 76: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V15 benefit-safe
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral615.415.420.5
Slightly Agree1128.228.248.7
Agree1435.935.984.6
Agree Strongly615.415.4100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 77: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V16 reduce-traffic
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree37.77.77.7
Neutral717.917.925.6
Slightly Agree1230.830.856.4
Agree820.520.576.9
Agree Strongly923.123.1100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 78: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V17road-time
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidSlightly Disagree25.15.15.1
Neutral25.15.110.3
Slightly Agree717.917.928.2
Agree1128.228.256.4
Agree Strongly1743.643.6100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 79: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P2V18 reduce-pressure
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Neutral410.310.312.8
Slightly Agree512.812.825.6
Agree1128.228.253.8
Agree Strongly1846.246.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 80: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies c. Univariate Statistics for attributes of intention to turn into using self-driving car construct:
P2V19 benefit-encourage
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Disagree12.62.65.1
Slightly Disagree25.15.110.3
Neutral12.62.612.8
Slightly Agree615.415.428.2
Agree1333.333.361.5
Agree Strongly1538.538.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 81: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P3V1 willing-pay
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Disagree12.62.65.1
Slightly Disagree410.310.315.4
Neutral512.812.828.2
Slightly Agree1025.625.653.8
Agree1230.830.884.6
Agree Strongly615.415.4100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 82: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P3V2 lot-benefits
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidNeutral410.310.310.3
Slightly Agree820.520.530.8
Agree1641.041.071.8
Agree Strongly1128.228.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 83: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P3V3 recommend-use
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Neutral820.520.523.1
Slightly Agree615.415.438.5
Agree923.123.161.5
Agree Strongly1538.538.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 84: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P3V4 ease-of-use
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral410.310.315.4
Slightly Agree923.123.138.5
Agree1230.830.869.2
Agree Strongly1230.830.8100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 85: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P3V5 willing-buy
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree37.77.77.7
Slightly Disagree12.62.610.3
Neutral512.812.823.1
Slightly Agree923.123.146.2
Agree1025.625.671.8
Agree Strongly1128.228.2100.0
Total39100.0100.0
Table 86: Descriptive Statistics: frequencies
P3V6 own-idea
FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative Percent
ValidDisagree Strongly12.62.62.6
Slightly Disagree12.62.65.1
Neutral37.77.712.8
Slightly Agree1025.625.638.5
Agree923.123.161.5
Agree Strongly1538.538.5100.0
Total39100.0100.0

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Arwa A. Al Shamsi, 20180935. 2020. "Acceptance of Self-Driving Cars in United Arab Emirates". Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - H: Information & Technology GJCST-H Volume 20 (GJCST Volume 20 Issue H2).

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