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This study proposes a comprehensive user acceptance evaluation framework for intelligent driving from the perspective of value engineering (VE). The novelty of this framework lies in three aspects: (1) It unifies behavioral theory and utility theory under the value engineering framework, and it extracts key indicators such as safety, travel efficiency, trust, comfort, and cost, thus addressing the issue of the lack of integration between subjective and objective factors in previous studies. (2) It establishes a systematic mapping mechanism from technical solutions to evaluation indicators, filling the gap of insufficient targeting at different technical routes in the existing literature. (3) It quantifies acceptance differences via VE\u2019s core formula of V = F\/C, overcoming the ambiguity of non-technical evaluation in prior research. A case study comparing single-vehicle intelligence vs. collaborative intelligence and different sensor combinations (vision-only, map fusion, and lidar fusion) shows that collaborative intelligence and vision-based solutions offer higher comprehensive acceptance due to balanced functionality and cost. This framework guides enterprises in technical strategy planning and assists governments in formulating industrial policies by quantifying acceptance differences across technical routes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems13080653","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,5]],"date-time":"2025-08-05T08:46:55Z","timestamp":1754383615000},"page":"653","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Comprehensive User Acceptance Evaluation Framework of Intelligent Driving Based on Subjective and Objective Integration\u2014From the Perspective of Value Engineering"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7088-8648","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Automotive Strategy Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fuquan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Automotive Strategy Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zongwei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Automotive Strategy Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-1850-0849","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haokun","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Automotive Strategy Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guangyu","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"Tsinghua Automotive Strategy Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Elassy, M., Al-Hattab, M., Takruri, M., and Badawi, S. 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