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A new poll suggests that drivers are very interested in self-driving vehicles, reports USA Today<\/a>. More than three of four American licensed drivers questioned are \u201cvery likely\u201d to consider or to purchase a driverless car, notes the poll, conducted by Insurance.com, a car insurance website. Of the 2,000 drivers surveyed, 86 percent said that driverless cars would be even more agreeable when presented with the option of lower-priced car insurance.<\/p>\n

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The public is starting to imagine the benefits of self-driving cars. From Roman Boed<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cPeople are aware that they already drive cars controlled partly by computers,\u201d Insurance.com managing editor Des Toups noted, in a statement. “Now they see features like collision avoidance on new models and hear about Google cars hitting the roads in a couple of years. An autonomous car is not science fiction anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The survey, which was conducted in June and polled an equal number of men and women, also found that 24.5 percent of the total drivers polled would not want to own a driverless car. Further, 61 percent said that they didn\u2019t believe such cars could\u00a0 \u201cmake the same snap decisions as a human driver,\u201d reports <\/span>Mashable<\/a>. And 31.7 percent reported that they would hope to never drive again if driverless cars become widespread. As Toups notes, \u201cSpend time in traffic anywhere and it’s clear many people would rather be doing something else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those polled did have certain objections to driverless car use. For example, 76 percent of those polled said they wouldn\u2019t trust a driverless vehicle to bring their kids to school. And, as the company\u2019s statement notes, there were also concerns about a computer-driven vehicle\u2019s decision-making: \u201cGiven a choice between hitting a pedestrian and hitting another vehicle head-on, for example, 79 percent of drivers said they would want their autonomous car programmed to hit the other vehicle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe still don\u2019t know how autonomous cars will communicate, who\u2019ll be liable for failures, or how they\u2019ll mix with old-fashioned cars,\u201d managing editor Toups notes. \u201cBut we\u2019re already well down this road.\u201d In fact, 73 percent of those drivers surveyed agreed that cars of the future — model year 2040, in particular — will \u201coperate in ways familiar to the drivers of 2014.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While interest in self-driving cars seems to be on the rise, separate surveys, however, have discovered different driver reactions. For example, one AutoTrader.com survey from May of this year suggests that a mere 22 percent of 1,500 survey respondents would consider buying a self-driving car, and 43 percent felt that such cars were “a bad idea.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If surveys are to be believed, American drivers — or, at least those polled — seem to be filled with questions over the idea of autonomous vehicles. (In a separate AutoTrader.com study, 17 percent of survey respondents reported feeling that in-car technology was “extremely important,” and 43 percent reported feeling it was “somewhat important.”) Perhaps a better indicator are automakers\u2019 plans. Google, <\/span>Nissan<\/a>, <\/span>Volvo<\/a>, <\/span>Ford<\/a> and <\/span>Daimler<\/a> are further developing this technology, betting on driverly interest in driver-free cars, however difficult that interest may to be to quantify.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new poll suggests that drivers are very interested in self-driving vehicles, reports USA Today. More than three of four American licensed drivers questioned are \u201cvery likely\u201d to consider or to purchase a driverless car, notes the poll, conducted by Insurance.com, a car insurance website. 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