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Forbes magazine
Self-driving cars – or autonomous vehicles, as the industry prefers to call them – are coming. But that doesn’t mean people are planning to rush out to buy them. According to a new Reuters poll, two-thirds of those who responded to the poll said they wouldn’t buy a fully autonomous vehicle. Another 63% percent said they wouldn’t pay more for a car equipped with a self-driving feature, such as Tesla’s Autopilot. Forty-one percent wouldn’t pay more than $2,000 for it. Tesla’s Autopilot costs at least $5,000 to activate.
The main problem is that very few people have ridden in or even seen a self-driving vehicle in action. Their fear of the unknown factors heavily in their disapproval. Once more of the vehicles are on the road, experts think the public will accept them.
“People are comfortable with things they know,” investor Chris Thomas, co-founder of Fontinalis Partners and Detroit Mobility Lab, told Reuters. “When everybody understands the game-changing attributes of automated vehicles, how they can give you back all that time to read or work or sleep, they will start to ask about the value of that recaptured time.”
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Forbes magazine
Self-driving cars – or autonomous vehicles, as the industry prefers to call them – are coming. But that doesn’t mean people are planning to rush out to buy them. According to a new Reuters poll, two-thirds of those who responded to the poll said they wouldn’t buy a fully autonomous vehicle. Another 63% percent said they wouldn’t pay more for a car equipped with a self-driving feature, such as Tesla’s Autopilot. Forty-one percent wouldn’t pay more than $2,000 for it. Tesla’s Autopilot costs at least $5,000 to activate.
The main problem is that very few people have ridden in or even seen a self-driving vehicle in action. Their fear of the unknown factors heavily in their disapproval. Once more of the vehicles are on the road, experts think the public will accept them.
“People are comfortable with things they know,” investor Chris Thomas, co-founder of Fontinalis Partners and Detroit Mobility Lab, told Reuters. “When everybody understands the game-changing attributes of automated vehicles, how they can give you back all that time to read or work or sleep, they will start to ask about the value of that recaptured time.”
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