Are you ready, here they come!

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Originally Posted by cbaber

1 in 5 say they would never drive again if they had an autonomous car [w/poll] - Autoblog
The Big Worry About Driverless Cars? Losing Privacy, New Poll Finds. - Driver's Seat - WSJ

Thanks for linking your sources. Cherry picking some of the figures from the same sources:

• Only "16% say they aren’t sure why self-driving vehicles are important." This implies that 84% of people are sure why autonomous vehicles are important.
• "Cisco’s survey found that 57% of the respondents, who came from 10 countries, said they’d ride in a car controlled entirely by robotic systems."
• "Sixty percent of the Americans surveyed said they would be comfortable in a self-piloting vehicle."
• "33 percent of those in the study said they would buy an autonomous car if rates dropped by 80 percent – a rate reduction that had 90 percent of respondents very likely to consider such technology."

So, the figures don't lie, but liars do figure. We can interpret the data to mean that the majority of people are against autonomous vehicles, or we can interpret the data to mean they are advocates.

Regardless of what the public thinks, the facts regarding which is more safe; autonomous features, or manual driving, is beyond the lay-persons area of expertise. People that have no clue what the latest technology is, should have no opinion about it.