Even Americans would rather drive cars themselves: Study

September 2019 \ Arts & Entertainment \ Research

Even Americans would rather drive cars themselves: Study

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, from Washington University have revealed that people in the US ...

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, from Washington University have revealed that people in the US would rather drive themselves than have an autonomous vehicle drive them. Many Americans use a ride-hailing service—like Uber or Lyft—to get to and from work. It provides the privacy of riding in a personal car and the convenience of catching up on emails or social media during traffic jams. In the future, self-driving vehicles could provide the same service, except without a human driver. "The average person in our sample would find riding in a driverless car to be more burdensome than driving themselves. This highlights the risks of making forecasts based on how people say they would respond to driverless cars today," said study senior author Don MacKenzie.