Today, the digital association Bitkom published the results of a representative survey on autonomous driving services in Germany. The results indicate that the majority of consumers are open towards these services: 74 percent would use self-driving subway or railway trains as well as autonomous cabs, and 57 percent would ride in autonomous passenger cars.
For this representative survey, Bitkom Research on behalf of the digital association Bitkom interviewed a total of 1,003 people in Germany aged 16 and over by telephone about their assessments and attitudes regarding autonomous mobility services.
These are further insights:
- At 74 percent, a broad majority of consumers said they would use a self-driving subway or railway train as well as autonomous cabs. Another 73 percent would ride on driverless busses, and 57 percent would also ride in an autonomous passenger car.
- A relatively smaller share of respondents would board an autonomous ship (45 percent) and self-flying aircraft (30 percent).
- Perspectively, 40 percent of consumers assumed that there would be no autonomous mobility services as part of their regional public transport even after 10 years. 35 percent could envision this happening in 10 years at the latest and 15 percent in 5 years at the latest. Only 5 percent believed they would already be able to use these services in 2 years.
Ralf Wintergerst, Bitkom President, noted: "The technology has made enormous progress; autonomous cabs are already part of the street scene in San Francisco, and autonomous subways are running in Germany. There is a great willingness to use autonomous transport. As far as the legal framework for autonomous driving is concerned, Germany is a pioneer in Europe. Now the task must be to apply this law in practice and get the services on the road. It is important to create cross-national and uniform procedures for approval in connected and autonomous driving."
Source: Bitkom
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