More than sixty-six percent of motorists are against government plans to allow self-driving vehicles to be tested on the road from January 2015, Smart Witness has revealed. As such, this survey of more than one-thousand people showed that the majority think that “further checks are needed” before such machinery is let loose.

 

Furthermore, nearly ninety percent claimed that such vehicles should be fitted with a forward-facing camera to reveal who – or what – is to blame for any collision. Smart Witness produces these cameras that have cleared countless motorists of blame (and convicted others). Interestingly, eighty percent of the survey respondents said there could be “added complications” when resolving insurance disputes and that computer error “would always be suspected as the cause of the crash”. The latter could ensure that self-driving vehicles are expensive to insure (at least until proven safe/reliable long term).

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