The fact that a crash of a driverless car receives extraordinary media attention, even if the autonomous vehicle is not at fault, may have fueled the results of an online survey that found that 61 percent of Americans said they were not ready to ride in self-driving cars.
Consumer groups are pushing back against what they say is a flawed effort in Congress to regulate the vehicles, although 94 percent of car crashes are caused by human error and most traffic fatalities in 2016 were caused by three factors that fully autonomous cars might eliminate: distracted driving, drunken driving and speeding.
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