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Consumer Ambivalence Towards Self-Driving Cars

According to Chris Beer, recent research by GlobalWebIndex reveals internet users in the UK and the U.S. are ambivalent about self-driving cars.  Internet users in the UK and U.S. are split down the middle between enthusiasm and concern about autonomous cars.

Younger internet users are more open to the prospect …

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  1. Kirk Augustin from Mr., April 29, 2019 at 8:24 p.m.

    Autonomous vehicles are really silly.  They do not work at all.  No one has been able to get them to work on snow, in rain, when GPS goes down with the solar maxima, etc.  They can fake a nice demo, but they can't even navigate a parking lot.

  2. Marcelo Salup from Iffective LLC, April 30, 2019 at 10:11 a.m.

    Self driving cars are absolutely great for 75% of our driving and I already have a couple of friends with the self-driving or at least more or less self-driving option on their Teslas.

    However, self driving cars will not be popular until we have another option. In addition to the ludicrous button on the Tesla (and if you don't know what it is, perhaps you ought to go back to driving Toyota Avalons or something) we need one that says BTW (as in Balls to the Wall) where the car cruises at 120 mph in the middle of traffic using all the radar and technology to avoid crashes. Now, that would be a self-driving car I could get behind!

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Jack Loechner is the Editor of The Center for Media Research's daily Research Brief. You can reach him at jack@mediapost.com.

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