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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:16PM (#631658)

    This might sound like a valid argument if I weren't a programmer. But I am and I wouldn't trust code written by God himself and reviewed by Donald Knuth to control the number of cars we have on the roads every single day.

    Sounds a little pessimistic? Or are you just a bad programmer?

    You do realize that that 1,300,000 people are dead on the roads in the world everyday people of idiots on the roads? All software has to do is kill less than 1,000,000 people per year and we are greatly reducing the most likely violent reason you are going to die...

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:19PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:19PM (#631697) Journal

    1,300,000 people are dead on the roads in the world everyday

    World wide birth / deaths per day.
    • 360,000 births per day • 151,600 people die each day.

    No wonder you post as AC.

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