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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tech-selfdriving-idUSKCN0YE1TEBY PAUL LIENERT - Mon May 23, 2016 10:09am EDT
U.S. consumers still resist the notion of self-driving cars, according to a University of Michigan study released on Monday, the latest sign that investors and automakers may be rushing into a business where demand is limited at best.
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Consumers, meanwhile, remain concerned about aspects of self-driving technology and "overwhelmingly" still want the ability to manually control a self-driving vehicle, the study said.
"The most frequent preference for vehicle automation continues to be for no self-driving capability," said the study's authors, Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak.
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Nearly 95 percent of respondents said they wanted to have a steering wheel plus gas and brake pedals so they could take control of a self-driving vehicle when desired, the study found.
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U.S. consumers buck investors' rush to self-driving cars : study (Original Post)
FrodosPet
May 2016
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Javaman
(62,532 posts)1. not me.
I want to sleep on the way to work.
Bucky
(54,041 posts)2. I want my self driving car to be wide enough for a cot and tall enough for a shower stall
and have a strong enough engine that it can tow a portable basketball court behind me on my way to and from work.
Then I won't even need a house.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)3. I am sure people in 1995 weren't rushing to adopt music files either
And yet twenty years later they are ubiquitous and accepted by all but silly bare-footed badger-bearded twenty-somethings with man-buns, and a handful of Luddite hobbyists. Fountain pen users in 1935 sneered at the idea of ball-points becoming normal too.
Convenience will always win in the mass marketplace, but only after it can be demonstrated and experienced. I probably won't see self-driving cars become the norm, but I hope to see them affordable for second-wave early adopters, in whose numbers I shall be.