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AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by piracy1 »

christogreeff wrote: post #8
piracy1 wrote: post #3

I wonder if it's an age thing. I'm 20, I have quite little fear and I think most of my peers feel the same way. I'm planning to buy a Tesla the second they let me buy one with bitcoin and I 100% plan to daily drive autopilot on city streets when it's ready, I really can't picture any of my friends being like wtf turn that shit off. Edit: Disregard, I thought it was self driving related not full robotaxi that shit is…

Experience. Indirectly linked to age. When you have been driving for a number of years and have experienced how quickly and unexpectedly things can happen while driving, it's hard to completely put your life in the hands of an automated system.

I think it's more fundamental. I trust a computer more to react quickly to something unexpected than I trust myself to. Maybe I'm biased because I spend all day programming and poking at computers and almost none of it driving.

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by wyxuan »

Echoing the same sentiments with methodology that others have made - I wonder if they put self-driving, or autonomous vehicles, instead of something like "automated vehicles" that the percentage would go down. After all, most people don't know it as 'automated vehicles'.

The wording also might betray the age demographic of most people in the survey, but who knows.

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by piracy1 »

chrismcb wrote: post #12
piracy1 wrote: post #3

I wonder if it's an age thing. I'm 20, I have quite little fear and I think most of my peers feel the same way. I'm planning to buy a Tesla the second they let me buy one with bitcoin and I 100% plan to daily drive autopilot on city streets when it's ready, I really can't picture any of my friends being like wtf turn that shit off. Edit: Disregard, I thought it was self driving related not full robotaxi that shit is…

What do you mean by "when it is ready" it sounds to me like you aren't ready to drive in a self driving car, and are part of that 86% I'm actually surprised that 14% think the auto cars are ready

> It's a feature that is not available, if u try to turn on self driving in city streets it tells u no.

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by tjoff »

changoplatanero wrote: post #29
ComputerGuru wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I laughed at that statistic the first time I read it, but it isn’t ridiculous. 80% of drivers consider themselves better than what they think of as the average (mean) driver, not average (mode) driver. Same for most surveys. People see how bad the worst is, how good the best is, and then place themselves somewhere above the middle of that range.

It could also mean that 80% of people are better than average according to their preferred metric of good driving but that everyone has a different metric.

And that noone grades themselves on their absolute worst distracted behavior. Whereas what you see/notice in traffic are of other drivers experiencing just that.

The majority of drivers are good drivers - most of the time.

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by camjohnson26 »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #21
FatalLogic wrote: post #14

Up to 80% of drivers rated themselves as 'above average' in a survey [0] And there have been similar results in other surveys [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3730094/

I laughed at that statistic the first time I read it, but it isn’t ridiculous. 80% of drivers consider themselves better than what they think of as the average (mean) driver, not average (mode) driver. Same for most surveys. People see how bad the worst is, how good the best is, and then place themselves somewhere above the middle of that range.

Ratings: 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Average Rating: 8.2

% Below Average: 10%

% Above Average: 90%

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by azinman2 »

camjohnson26 wrote: post #35
ComputerGuru wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I laughed at that statistic the first time I read it, but it isn’t ridiculous. 80% of drivers consider themselves better than what they think of as the average (mean) driver, not average (mode) driver. Same for most surveys. People see how bad the worst is, how good the best is, and then place themselves somewhere above the middle of that range.

Ratings: 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Average Rating: 8.2 % Below Average: 10% % Above Average: 90%

Driving skills are literally to be normally distributed, which this distribution is not.

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by asdff »

Pilots are still used to take off and land the plane. Personally, I'd have apprehension too. I'm coming up on a turn on the freeway at 60 mph and I'm just supposed to hope this version of software is bug free on top of everything else? We are talking software, here. You can't inspect it to see if the parts are rusted out or do regular maintenance and expect with certainly the wheels won't fall off; it works or it doesn't and that's terrifying.

I'd be comfortable with automatic cruse control/lane departure avoidance, but for complicated maneuvering on interchanges or in gridlocked traffic, I'm going to want to be able to take the reigns at a moments notice and expect to still have a steering wheel/etc.

Re: AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

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Post by nostromo »

hkmurakami wrote: post #15

In my teens and twenties I was very confident in my driving. As I've gotten older my self confidence and my confidence in others' driving abilities and attention to the road have eroded significantly. I've been rear ended several times, almost gotten hit by reckless drivers, and a few friends have died in traffic accidents. With every year that goes by, getting in the car feel more like a game of Russian roulette to…

> I've been rear ended several times, almost gotten hit by reckless drivers, and a few friends have died in traffic accidents

All of which will happen to people riding in autonomous vehicles.

I get what you're saying. But almost nobody fears their own driving on the road, they fear other people's driving.

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