Dispositional trust - Do we trust autonomous cars?

The 21st century is the age of automatization. While before the millennium day-to-day applications were semi-autonomous since they necessitated human intervention in achieving their goals, now we are living in a society that expects trustworthy autonomous systems in the industrial and business life as well as in their private life that can attain goals independently without any human intervention [1]. The automatons might be on the verge of completion, but are the people ready for them, or will they hesitate to use them because of lack of trust? Present article endeavours the tackle the issue of trust in automatic systems on the basis of a primary research on attitudes toward (semi) automated vehicles.