Whether ISA research and implementation will be supported, facilitated and/or allowed by politicians depends on the acceptance of ISA. Acceptance by industry is of course essential and will only be given if ISA is accepted by car drivers. If they deny to drive ISA-equipped cars, the equipment will have no future. In the frame of the ISA-study in Lund, where the so called Active gas pedal was tested, acceptance was analysed with the help of several methods: Standardised instruments were applied to measure, among other things, attitudes towards the principle ISA. This reflects acceptance before the equipment has been used in practice. The same instruments are used at a later stage, as well, comparing quantified attitude indicators after use of the equipment to the figures that were received in the before phase. In other words, standardised scales are used in order to control in which way the use of the equipment in practice changes acceptance. At the same time, there were applied qualitative instruments, in order to understand acceptance aspects: With the help of a diary - applied at two occasions during use of the equipment - and of in-depth interviews some weeks after having finished driving with ISA, the following questions have been dealt with: Is the principle accepted well, and what does this depend on? What are the characteristics of ISA that enhance acceptance? What are the most important barriers to acceptance? And are there any results that indicate what should/could be done in order to enhance and to improve acceptance? For the covering abstract see ITRD E123876.
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