Afraid of cars that drive themselves? You’re not alone. 3 of 4 U.S. drivers are afraid of the technology: https://t.co/I5FqTdG8Gy
— Edmunds.com (@edmunds) March 8, 2016
Remember back in the day when the scariest thing humans could imagine was being eaten by a wolf impersonating someone's grandma? Our modern fears have a strikingly technological twist, but fundamentally it all goes back to the same thing: we don't want to die.
Avoiding danger means carefully vetting any new concept we're introduced to. Should grandma really have such large, sharp rows of teeth? Will a self-driving car glitch out or be hacked while I'm on the highway?
Suspicious questions are designed to keep the asker safe.
It's no wonder, then, with so many questions unanswered about autonomous vehicles, that about 75 percent of drivers say they would be afraid to ride in one.
However, there are already some pretty scary statistics about traffic safety. Thousands of accidents occur every year, and the majority are caused by driver error. Self-driving cars have the potential to remove the element of human distraction.
Even if we never see fully self-driving technology, the pursuit of it has yielded two of the greatest life-saving features since the three-point seatbelt: Forward Collision Warning and Automatic Emergency Braking.
You can find these intelligent features in many of our used vehicles for sale in Batavia at Pellegrino Auto Sales.
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