TY - JOUR A1 - Rykova, Eugenia A1 - Stieben, Christine A1 - Dostovalova, Olga A1 - Wieker, Horst T1 - Connected Driving in German-Speaking Social Media JF - Social Sciences N2 - 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. KW - ITS KW - intelligent transportation system KW - connected driving KW - autonomous driving KW - social media KW - Twitter KW - Reddit Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-16969 SN - 2076-0760 VL - 12 IS - 1 PB - MDPI ER -