Traffic deaths are skyrocketing after a decade of steady declines. Drunk drivers killed more than 10,000 Americans in 2015, the latest year for which statistics are available. More than 600,000 motorists are yammering away on their cellphones at any given moment. So what are drivers worried about" The technology that promises one day to eliminate those deaths and distractions.
Three-quarters of Americans are afraid to ride in a self-driving vehicle, according to a new AAA study, which examines how views of this nascent technology have evolved?or haven?t?over time. Researchers from the organization gleaned those findings from a survey conducted in January, and the results are unchanged from the same survey conducted a year earlier.
As automakers and tech companies make rapid innovations and compress the time frames in which they intend to deliver self-driving vehicles to the masses, the survey results show they still have some work to do before consumers are convinced that autonomy is a smarter and safer means of transportation.
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?There?s going to be a mixed fleet for a long time, but that?s more time to get consumers comfortable.?

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?There really is a disconnect,? said Greg Brannon, AAA?s director of automotive engineering. ?If you break it down, we?re losing 100 people per day on our roads, equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every week. Nobody would think to fly under those circumstances, right" We?d be in a horrible situation. Yet traf...