Majority of UAE Residents Excited for Driverless Cars

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Majority of UAE Residents Excited for Driverless Cars

Dubai, UAE - Tuesday 13th December 2016: The future has gotten here - driverless cars are officially here. Driverless automobiles are presently being trialled in Dubai, driverless taxis are being trialled in Singapore and the U.S.A, while in the UK tests have additionally been authorized in chosen areas.

But how are driverless vehicles perceived by UAE Residents?
A current research utilizing YouGov's Omnibus Service, has discovered that many UAE residents are enthusiastic regarding driverless cars, with 57% of respondents familiar with driverless car trials occurring in Downtown Dubai, however numerous have problems over their safety, security and implementation.

The research study disclosed that 58% of UAE residents are passionate towards driverless cars with 61% believing driverless cars will certainly enable everybody to get around easily regardless of their driving capability in addition to 43% of research study participants thinking that driverless vehicles will certainly help in reducing traffic jam on roadways.

With new modern technology come new problems and the safety and security of driverless cars is of fantastic worry as only 43% of study participants believe they would certainly be safe in contrast to standard cars driven by humans. Virtually three quarters (73%) of UAE residents find the greatest bother with making use of driverless cars and trucks is the danger of technology failure e.g. the cars cannot stop at traffic signal, complied with by software application hacking and various other mechanical failures (69%).

Producing different lanes or roadways for driverless cars is a solution 72% of residents considered as imperative, also 76% think it would certainly be important to maintain 'manual controls' in the cars themselves.

Several residents would think about making use of driverless cars for day to day activities such as commuting to work (42%) and taking a travelling on a freeway (44%). On the other hand not as numerous residents would certainly take into consideration making use of driverless cars and trucks in high risk scenarios such as taking a relative or pal in immediate requirement of medical attention to the hospital (35%) or having children ride to school or other activities alone (33%).

UAE residents would certainly perform activities such as talking on their phone cars and truck (44%), hear the radio (39%), talk with other passengers (37%) and rest (37%) while making use of a driverless auto. Nonetheless just 24% of residents would certainly prefer to rest while in a driverless car.

YouGov Senior Research study Manager Anjali Chhabra commented "Driverless cars and trucks do supply a promising choice to owning and would certainly decrease the number of road casualties because of human error. Nonetheless, public predicament related to their security, and how these autonomous vehicles are most likely to act when bordered by human motorists, leave much space for modern technology experts and regulators alike to make sure self-driven cars are certainly safe in all situations."

The research study was carried out to analyze overall perceptions of driverless vehicles amongst UAE residents and was carried out on-line by interviewing members of YouGov's on-line research panel who are residents of the UAE.