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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: 2) by frojack on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:45PM (2 children)
The interesting part of that is that DOING the driving tends to eliminate motion sickness.
Just watching the road works as well, but passengers get distracted and look out the side windows, or at reading material or phones, and then they get motion sickness. Not seeing the cause of the movement (the turn, the lane change, the bumps) before the motion is felt seems to cause motion sickness.
Seeing the cause (ahead of time) and expecting it usually means no problem.
Steep turns during pilot training would get me queasy every time the instructor demonstrated it. When I was flying the plane, no problem. To this day, when I fly, I prefer to sit over the leading edge of the wing, and have a window seat for this reason.
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday February 02 2018, @12:31AM
I think it may be less the predictable motion (curves, traffic, etc), and more the constant slight adjustments being made basically at random. Pretty much everybody wanders around the lane while driving, some by inches, some by a foot or more - generally speaking you steer towards whatever they're looking at in that moment. There's also variation in the frequency and sharpness of motion that can make a big difference in passenger nausea. As the driver of course, you're expecting every motion, even if you're not consciously aware that you're veering.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 02 2018, @12:37AM
As an old sailor, I'll vouch for the "watch the road" thing. Seasickness wasn't something that really bothered me - but in five years of sea duty, there were days that were worse than others. Generally, getting outside, on the weatherdecks, and watching the seas coming at you, relieved my discomfort.
Of course, the Navy's oldest remedy for seasickness is hard work. A person with a task in front of him, that demands his attention, is bothered by motion sickness far less than an idle sailor.