BUILDING THE TRUST OF A VEHICLE OCCUPANT IN AN AUTOMATED VEHICLE FUNCTION

Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to building the trust of an occupant in an automated vehicle function. In one embodiment, a method for building the trust includes acquiring trust data regarding an automated function of a vehicle, an external environment of the vehicle, and an occupant of the vehicle. The method also includes processing the trust data to determine a baseline trust of the occupant in the automated function executing an action for the vehicle. The method also includes identifying a trust level of the occupant. The method further includes determining, based, at least in part, on the trust data and in response to identifying that the trust level satisfies a threshold, a trust message and a content type and a delivery type of the trust message. The method further includes delivering the trust message to the occupant.