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Table 1 Participants of the three focus groups, with their occupation and relation to AVs

From: A future without drivers? Comparing users', urban planners' and developers' assumptions, hopes, and concerns about autonomous vehicles

Future Users

Occupation

FU1

Financial officer

FU2

Prison warden

FU3

Elderly care worker

FU4

Military officer

FU5

Historian

FU6

Former medical transport driver

FU7

High school teacher

FU8

Works for the city

FU9

Hospital employee

FU10

Artist

Urban Planners

Occupation, and professional relation to AVs

UP1

Traffic planner, currently also strategic development

UP2

Works at business development department, and future innovation platform

UP3

Future strategist, working with future direction for traffic planning

UP4

City planner, working with the new comprehensive land use plan for the city

UP5

Infrastructure strategist, working on a discussion document on future mobility

Developers

Occupation, and professional relation to AVs

D1

Works at innovation department of automotive company, sustainable mobility focus

D2

Works with development of automotive chassis systems

D3

Works with automotive interior construction, coaches new development projects

D4

Consultant engineer in automotive sector, exterior camera development

D5

Consultant engineer in automotive sector, object detection, neural networks, and radar sensors