Public Growing Wary of Self-Driving Cars

August 24, 2018

Fewer than half of people in the United States now believe that self-driving cars will make roadways safer—a drop from a clear majority only two years ago, seemingly influenced by recent high-profile accidents involving autonomous vehicles, says a new study by Cox Automotive. If companies ignore such worries and push this technology too fast, the public might come to “fixate on any technological failures to the detriment of the long-term viability of this movement to address unsafe driving,” an analyst cautions in Issues, adding that a “slow-but-sure strategy to commercialization makes the most sense for now.”

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