With new automotive technologies coming hard and fast, consumer attitudes are apparently being left on the side of the road
.by J.D. Power and SurveyMonkey found that consumer confidence in both electronic vehicles and autonomous vehicles is not where proponents would like it to be. Specifically, the general population has a"low level of confidence" for AVs and a"neutral level of confidence" for EVs, according to the survey results.
On the autonomous front, the biggest problem people had was with their comfort level being in an AV and also sharing the road with AVs. Consumers also think AV technology is further away than it is likely to be, with the average estimate being that AVs are a decade away, while experts thinks self-driving services will be here in five or six years. There's also a high fear of failure and getting hacked while on the road .
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