In a potential hitch to the rapidly approaching utopian future where everybody shares self-driving cars, a new study shows most Australians just don't want to do it -- and it's an attitude that could end up costing us more money. While we're looking forward to self-driving cars, transport experts and the motor industry may have got it wrong about our attitudes to sharing vehicles, according to the University of Sydney Business School's latest Transport Opinion Survey. No survey participants expected their daily travel to remain the same in the driver-less era. He said pundits promoting the virtues of driver-less cars were suggesting that they would contribute to a significant reduction in traffic congestion. In March a survey by the U.S. agency AAA found half of drivers aren't comfortable sharing the road with a self-driving car.

Source: Huffington Post September 25, 2017 01:52 UTC