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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 01 2018, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-let-go dept.

A very small survey of people of different ages suggests that there are age and gender differences in the acceptance of riding in automated cars. In summary, 2,600 people in the US replied and of them 38% of the men and just 16% of women would be happy to ride in an automated vehicle. About a quarter of respondents said they would feel safe in a driverless car while around two thirds said they would not travel unless there was a driver. No mention was made about their opinions of sharing the road with these massive projectiles when driving themselves in traditional cars.

Source : Driverless cars: Men and women have very different opinions on letting go of the wheel


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Thursday February 01 2018, @04:55PM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 01 2018, @04:55PM (#631539) Journal

    Escalators and elevators are much simpler machines and require vastly simpler software to control. Yet accidents [telegraph.co.uk] happen with both all the time. Most of them are minor some are major, but they happen all the time despite the simplicity. Just ask any lift inspector. The software for controlling cars is not even to the half-baked stage yet and it comes, for the moment, on top of all the other problems that recent cars have with their existing internal networked control systems.

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