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Americans Starting to Get Sold on Driverless Cars

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GETTY 073014 DriverlessCarLexus?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1406725319181Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The very concept of a car that drives itself makes a lot of people shudder, but a new Insurance.com survey suggests most Americans are rapidly warming up to the idea.

With cars from Google featuring autonomous capabilities expected on roads before the end of the decade, at least three quarters of those surveyed said they’d be either very likely to buy or at least consider buying a driverless vehicle.

As for the other 25 percent of the 2,000 respondents, they say there’s no way they’d purchase a car that takes the wheel out of their hands.

Interestingly, the number of those who say they’d never consider a driverless car falls to 13.7 percent if they could get a substantial break on automobile insurance.

Meanwhile, just over three in 10 of people surveyed by Insurance.com say that once they get an autonomous car, they will never drive themselves again.

However, a majority of Americans are not completely sold on the safety factor of these revolutionary vehicles. For instance, two-thirds say they would not allow their children to be transported to schools in driverless cars while 61 percent don’t think the machines have the same decision-making skills as humans.


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