Pros And Cons Of Self-Driving Vehicles

This new technology has the power to dramatically change the way in which transportation systems operate. Research on connected vehicles (a car that is equipped with Internet access, and usually also with a wireless local area network which allows the car to share internet access to other devices both inside as outside the vehicle) has shown that vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems potentially address 81% of all police-reported vehicle target crashes annually. [1] Self-driving technology includes elements of connected vehicle technology and is likely to gain these safety benefits as well.
As the public shapes the demand, people’s attitudes toward autonomous cars are very important. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak documented a report

It yielded responses from 1,533 persons 18 years and older. [2] The second survey was in China, India and Japan and it yielded completed responses from 610 respondents in China, 527 respondents in India, and 585 respondents in Japan. The majority of respondents had previously heard of autonomous or self-driving vehicles, had a positive initial opinion of the technology (or neutral in the case of Japan), and had high expectations about the benefits of the technology. However, the majority of respondents expressed high levels of concern about riding in self-driving vehicles, safety issues related to equipment or system failure, and self-driving vehicles not performing as well as human drivers. Respondents also expressed high levels of concern about vehicles without driver controls; self-driving vehicles moving while unoccupied; and self-driving commercial vehicles, buses, and taxis. The majority of respondents expressed a desire to have this technology in their vehicles. However, a majority was also unwilling to pay extra for the technology (except for respondents in China and India). In comparison to the respondents in the U.K. and Australia, respondents in the U.S. expressed greater concern about riding in self-driving vehicles, data privacy, interacting with non-self-driving vehicles, self-driving vehicles not driving as well as human drivers in general, and riding in a self-driving vehicle with no driver controls available. And in comparison to the respondents in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, respondents in China and India had more positive initial opinions of self-driving vehicles, expressed greater interest in having such technology on their personal vehicles, and were willing to pay the most for it. Japanese respondents, on the other hand, generally had more neutral initial opinions about self-driving technology and were willing to pay the least for it. The main implications of these