The idea of tooling around town in a car that drives itself — like the Google version pictured here — seems pretty cool to most people surveyed recently by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Nearly 57 percent of the 1,533 adults questioned by the institute in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia regarded the idea of self-driving cars as positive.
However, the majority of respondents expressed high levels of concern about riding in self-driving vehicles, including worries about the vehicles not performing as well as actual drivers, the study found.
Most also were worried about the cars moving by themselves from one location to another while unoccupied and weren t willing to pay extra for the technology.
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