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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: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:05PM
More likely it will teach nothing useful at all, and will be ignored, blamed on human drivers, and tossed out as an anomaly, written off as a cost of doing business.
Humans are very good at watching for and avoiding crazy actions of other drivers, children, dogs, and objects.
That guy who just passed you with a phone to his ear, and a hamburger in his other hand is going to do something stupid sooner or later. The smart drivers will put distance between themselves and that pending accident. Everybody involved, even the burger-muncher, is safer as a result. Will the computer ever achieve this ability to predict human errors, or the errors of other computers? Will interpret the frantic looks over the shoulder as a need to merge left or right, even without a turn signal? Will it recognize the middle finger as the sign of a rolling road rage - best avoided?
To error is human. But humans learn to allow for and expect errors. To really fuck things up you need a computer.
Someone is sure to insist that the solution is to remove all human drivers. Along with the decisions about where, when, route, and for what reasons you may choose to go someplace. Even the decision to park in the shade will be removed from your purview.
Cars are not elevators.
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