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Men and Women Have Very Different Opinions on Automated Cars

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

canopic jug writes:

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: 1) by tftp on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)

    by tftp (806) on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:14PM (#631654) Homepage

    Have you ever worked in an "enterprise" IT setting

    Yes.

    where virtually all of the company's computers simultaneously fell victim to the same automated hack, because they were all running the same Winblows 0-day?

    No. Q.E.D.

    Basically, everything in the world can be or is a weapon. Could be cars programmed to commit some suicide at some given time? Yes. But it is in our power to reduce this possibility to a minimum. Don't know about others, but I'm not giving up yet.

  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:06PM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:06PM (#631748) Journal

    No.

    Surely you aren't saying because it has never happened to you, therefore it has never happened to anyone?