Survey: Majority Of Americans Afraid To Travel In Self-Driving Cars
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Seventy-five-percent of Americans are afraid to ride in a self-driving vehicle. That's the finding of a recent Triple-A survey.
Why are even young people reluctant to embrace this technology? According to the survey, a portion of drivers like some autonomous technology, but many say, leave the driving to us:
"If you have a car that drives for itself, you can't prevent yourself from getting into an accident," says 18-year-old Kira.
24-year-old Cashmere worries about security:
"What if I'm driving one day and somebody hacks in my car and crashes into another car? There's a lot of cons to this concept itself cause with a computer you can rule the world nowadays."
And 21-year-old Lenisha says it just makes society lazier:
"We already have everything that does everything for us so why do we need cars that drive for us?"
The survey also finds a majority of people want features such as emergency braking and self parking. They just aren't ready to completely turn over the wheel.