Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

While the British government, among other across the globe, is putting its faith in an autonomous vehicle future, consumers are maintaining a certain degree of opposition to this technology. Southampton University reported in September 2017 that it had joined forces with comprethemarket.com to future-gaze, and they found that 73% of Brits oppose driverless cars because they believe they could malfunction.

A further 72% of the respondents claimed that they couldn’t trust a computer with car safety (and that’s even though many people fly on holiday in fly-by-wire aircraft that use information technology for this purpose). Subsequently, 68% of them want to have full control of their vehicles despite the industry-proclaimed improvements in safety of autonomous driving…

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Published by TU Automotive Magazine on 2nd March 2018.  Author: Graham Jarvis. 

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