President Trump May Have a Self-Driving Car Phobia
And He’s Not the Only One
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Are you afraid of the car? The autonomous car, that is.
You are in company if you identify with a self-driving car phobia. Even the President of the United States has doubts about fully automated vehicles, stating that they “will never work.”
“I would never get in a self-driving car,” President Donald Trump said. “I don’t trust some computer to drive me around.”
Reported conversations in the White House and on Air Force One describe President Trump discussing hypothetical scenes of autonomous cars losing control and colliding into walls.
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“He says, ‘Can you imagine, you’re sitting in the back seat and all of a sudden this car is zig-zagging around the corner and you can’t stop the [expletive] thing?’” said a source that has overheard Trump’s thoughts about the next gen vehicle.
His reservations for this new technology coincides with the misgivings in many Americans. Last week, AAA published a study that indicated 71 percent of U.S. citizens feared the idea of self-driving cars.
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J.D. Power also reported in 2018 that 42 percent of Americans would not even dare riding in a self-driving car.
However, we must all learn to conquer our fears, to breathe them in and face them.
Like the wall, the autonomous car is happening. And yes, autonomous driving is a world we do not fully understand yet.
It is our duty to research the benefits of newer advancements, find the pain points, and work to solve them before considering them a lost cause.
Sources: Mashable.com, Axios.com
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