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Connected Driving in German-Speaking Social Media

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  • Eugenia Rykova

    (University of Applied Sciences TH Wildau, 15745 Wildau, Germany
    University of Eastern Finland, 80100 Joensuu, Finland)

  • Christine Stieben

    (Saarland University of Applied Sciences HTW Saar, 66117 Saarbrücken, Germany)

  • Olga Dostovalova

    (Saarland University of Applied Sciences HTW Saar, 66117 Saarbrücken, Germany)

  • Horst Wieker

    (Saarland University of Applied Sciences HTW Saar, 66117 Saarbrücken, Germany)

Abstract

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have been steadily becoming part of our reality. For their successful integration, studying and understanding public opinions and acceptance is important. Social media platforms offer an extensive opportunity for opinion mining. While there have been studies on people’s attitudes towards automated driving, another important ITS concept—connected driving—has received little to no attention. In the current study, data on how connected driving is represented and perceived were collected from German(-speaking) Reddit and Twitter. In relevant Reddit entries, the necessity of communication between vehicles was discussed almost exclusively in the context of automated driving. On Twitter, mostly shared news and information on the topic are presented, while the number of personal opinions is low. The most concerning subtopic seems to be cybersecurity, which reflects a general trend of data protection issues discussed in society.

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  • Eugenia Rykova & Christine Stieben & Olga Dostovalova & Horst Wieker, 2023. "Connected Driving in German-Speaking Social Media," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:1:p:46-:d:1035815
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    1. Nikolaos Bakalos & Nikolaos Papadakis & Antonios Litke, 2020. "Public Perception of Autonomous Mobility Using ML-Based Sentiment Analysis over Social Media Data," Logistics, MDPI, vol. 4(2), pages 1-14, June.
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