71% of U.S. drivers are morons

[monkeydelmagico]

Autonomous vehicles can't get here fast enough:

AAA found that two-thirds of Americans familiar with the technology believe that automatic emergency braking systems are designed to avoid crashes without driver intervention,” said John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of Automotive Engineering and Repair​

http://newsroom.aaa.com/2016/08/hit-brakes-not-self-braking-cars-designed-stop/

 

[hans007]

im pretty sure based on just everyday living, that 70% of people are morons. 20% are merely not that annoying, and the last 10% i guess i'd care if they lived or not

 

[MongGrel]

Some countries are probably at around 99%

 

[rh71]

Maybe they need to rename it to something more vague like collision mitigation instead of "automatic braking"...

And BTW, at only 9%, if technology such as this (and lane departure warning, radar-cruise, etc.) is so slow to catch on, what makes you think the general public will get into fully autonomous vehicles anytime in the next few decades even?

 

[Midwayman]

Given the driving around me I'd say less than half are competent to be driving in ideal conditions. God help us if there is rain, snow, or traffic. Fortunately the worst of them are likely the sort that will be first in line for a SDC. Or we can hope at least.

 

[bruceb]

This is why all these so called driver assist (lane departure, antilock brakes, etc) are a waste of money. What needs to be done is for new drivers to learn the proper way at a driving school, how to properly control a vehicle under almost any condition. The car can not and must not be expected to do all the thinking. That is for the driver. And driverless cars, while a novel idea, are not yet suitable, until there are only all driverless vehicles on the road (which won't happen anytime soon). Like it or not the current generation is way too reliant on someone or something doing everything for them.

 

[Chaotic42]

Driving tests need to be brutal and they need to be in something like Ford Festivas or similar. Standard transmission, no power anything, parking tests, etc. It needs to be fairly difficult.