Nine out of 10 New Yorkers and 86% of residents in California feel that autonomous cars could make life easier, according to Volvo Cars’ Future of Driving survey, the largest online consumer conversation about autonomous driving to date with nearly 50,000 responses worldwide.
Residents in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas are less convinced than the average consumer about the safety benefits of autonomous driving. Only about half (52%) of Illinois respondents would trust an autonomous car to make decisions about safety, 10% less than the national average. Similarly, only 62% of Pennsylvanians think that having more autonomous cars on the road will eliminate traffic accidents versus a national average of 68%, and 60% of Texans believe autonomous cars could keep their family safer compared to 69 percent of people across the nation, according to the survey.
“The difference between states regarding the safety benefits of autonomous cars highlights why we need a federal framework for autonomous driving regulations,” said Lex Kerssemakers, president and CEO of Volvo Car USA.
Nationally, Americans are concerned about the pace at which lawmakers are responding to the prospect of autonomous cars. An overwhelming majority of respondents, 90%, believe governments and local authorities are slow to plan for autonomous cars, according to the survey.
Across all states, a majority taking the survey supported autonomous driving. However, 68% of people believe that driving manually is a luxury that must be preserved.
“Volvo believes that autonomous driving vehicles should give you the freedom to choose when you want to drive and when you want to delegate driving to the car,” said Kerssemakers. “The Future of Driving survey confirmed that consumers seek this freedom as autonomous driving technologies are introduced.”
The Future of Driving survey is just one of the many consumer studies Volvo Cars has conducted about autonomous driving. The company said its autonomous driving pilot program, “Drive Me,” will put 100 consumers in autonomous driving vehicles beginning in 2017.
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