Why most drivers don’t want autonomous cars

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9. i want one. so does my daughter.

in fact, i am about to buy the closest thing to an autonomous car i can find.
i am almost 62, have never been a great driver, and recently had my insurance cancelled for one too many fender benders. i dont drive at night any more after a somewhat overtired double whammy.
i intend to buy a car that doesnt let me do that stuff, because living w/o a car scares me. that was sort of the last nail in the coffin of my mom's mental acuity. she sunk into dementia when she was isolated like that. she couldnt drive because her new hip cost her control of her right foot.

my daughter has epilepsy as well as anxiety problems. it is pretty well controlled with meds, but even if she could get her license, she doesnt want to drive.
she lives right near me, and hopefully, when she is feeling better she might get up her courage to try driving again. but there is no way she would do it without that back up. being able to borrow my car once in a while would make a big difference to her. she has other health issues, and often cannot walk to the store or the pharmacy when she needs to. and she spends way to much of her disability check on uber. she is dying for the day she can get a self driving car.

so yeah, some of us do want a failsafe on our cars. and as us boomers get up there, more will really want to put off that inevitable day when we cant drive any more. in this culture, it is practically a death sentence.