UK public express apprehension and fear over autonomous cars
Britons are apprehensive about the prospect of autonomous cars with over half indicating they’d not feel safe in a self-driving vehicle.
This is one of the findings of a survey carried out by OnePoll for Thales, which found 57 per cent of poll participants fearing for their safety in an autonomous vehicle (AV).
UK government has ambitions to see fully self-driving vehicles on UK roads by 2021 and is helping industry on the road to autonomy by backing numerous consortia, including MERGE Greenwich, which looked at how autonomous ride-sharing could work with London’s transport network.
The 2017 project was led by the Addison Lee Group, which then partnered with Oxbotica with the aim of bringing autonomous ride sharing to the capital by 2021. In 2018 the partners said they’d realise this ambition by creating detailed, digital maps of over 250,000 miles of public roads in and around London to record the position of every kerb, road sign, landmark and traffic light in preparation for the deployment of autonomous cars.
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