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Xperi Research Shows Continued Consumer Trust Issues Regarding Self-Driving Car Technology
2022 Vehicle Predictions report reveals significant challenges to autonomous vehicle adoption today, but also a future in which consumers predict these
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n2022 Vehicle Predictions report reveals significant challenges to autonomous vehicle adoption today, but also a future in which consumers predict these vehicles will be commonplace\n\n LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nDTS®, a global leader in developing extraordinary next-generation audio, imaging and sensing technology and a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: XPER) (“Xperi”), shared today its 2022 Vehicle Predictions report which confirms that consumers are concerned about the safety of autonomous vehicles. The report, based on a survey of nearly 2,000 car owners/lessees, offers a snapshot of consumers’ view of the future of vehicles, with both areas of concern as well as hopeful signs for manufacturers of self-driving vehicles.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220105005110/en/\nThe report also includes consumer predictions that underscore the growing trend of the vehicle as a ‘third place’ outside work and home, the ascendance of the Electronic Vehicle (EV) and a future that includes flying cars.\n\nTop Takeaways:\n\n\nThere is a difference between interest in and distrust of self-driving cars\n\n\nMore than one-third (38%) of consumers are currently interested in owning a self-driving car and 80% believe that safe, fully automated, self-driving cars will eventually be commonplace. While distrust of self-driving technology is high today at 69%, 30% of respondents believe self-driving vehicles will become commonplace in the next five years.\n\n\nTrust in self-driving cars is directly related to safety\n\n\nJust over forty percent of consumers believe self-driving will eventually be the safest way to travel, although 57% say a computer will never drive a vehicle as safely as a human can.\n\nEven when it comes to limited self-driving technologies, such as driver assistance, partial driving automation and conditional driving automation, consumers remain wary, with considerably less than half saying that they find any of these features appealing.\n\n\nA rapid dominance of electric vehicles in the future\n\n\nConsumers are anticipating a relatively rapid dominance of EVs in the future: 34% predict that more EVs will be sold than gasoline powered vehicles within the next five years, and 85% believe it is inevitable that EVs will tak...