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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