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Americans are freaking out about the possibility of driverless cars hitting the road.
According to a recent Pew Research Center report, roughly two-thirds of Americans think robocars will dominate roads within the next half-century, yet fewer than half say they would choose to ride in one themselves.
Of the people who wouldn’t take a driverless trip, the biggest fears centered around a general lack of trust in the technology and more specific safety concerns.
People who do fancy the idea of a driverless car ride named the experience as their primary motivation. Safety again came in second—this time, due to beliefs that autonomous cars will be safer.
The data reflect the anxiety that many Americans are feeling in the face of rapid technological change. They accept its inevitability yet still harbor fears about personal happiness, health, and safety in a future, automated world.
For automakers eager to launch us into the future, Pew’s study underscores how far emotionally we still have to go. —Karen Hao
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