What do people think of driverless cars?

[banpei]

TBH: my daily commute is 3 out of 4 times by train. Due to the family timetables I have to bring the kids to kindergarten/school, which would make me a commuter during the rush hour. Even though I love to drive myself, I hate to drive in a traffic jam. Traveling by train is in my case both faster (40 minutes vs 60-70 minutes) and much more relaxing as I can do stuff on my laptop while commuting. And then one day a week I can leave the house early and enjoy driving myself. So most of the time I really enjoy not driving, while I do like to drive myself every now and then. I wouldn't mind owning a self driving car for the 3 out of 4 times.

I think there could be an analogy made with the rise in popularity with the automatic gearbox. 95% of the people really don't care and are 100% comfortable with an automatic gearbox, while 5% actually wishes to move that lever themselves. As more and more car manufacturers are dropping the old fashioned manual gearboxes, the automatic gearboxes with paddleshifters are the only option for that 5%. I think 95% of the people actually would also prefer to be chauffeured around and wouldn't care less if this was a real person or some AI.