{"id":5539,"date":"2019-08-22T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2023-02-03T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:13:24","slug":"would-you-ride-in-a-self-driving-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2019\/08\/22\/would-you-ride-in-a-self-driving-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you ride in a self-driving taxi?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These days it seems as though every major tech company that is even remotely tied to the transportation industry is working tirelessly to develop self-driving or autonomous vehicles. Will these vehicles fizzle out like Segways or will we soon be entering into this new territory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent survey published on <a href=\"https:\/\/ride.guru\/content\/newsroom\/autonomous-vehicles-in-the-year-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RideGuru<\/a>, respondents were asked if they would feel comfortable riding in an autonomous car. Not so surprisingly,  64% answered no. Take a look at the below infographic to see the complete breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media.rideguru.com\/uploads\/Rideshare-Impact-Infographic-09A.png\" alt=\"The future of autonomous cars\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are major tech companies working so hard to develop driverless technology when a large majority of consumers want nothing to do with a &#8220;robot taxi&#8221;? They must believe the public opinion will shift but they are going to have to do some serious campaigning around the safety aspects of a self driving taxi! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What category do you fall into in regards to autonomous vehicles? Are you ready to jump in a self driving car tomorrow or do you side with the 64% that would not feel safe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days it seems as though every major tech company that is even remotely tied to the transportation industry is working tirelessly to develop self-driving or autonomous vehicles. Will these vehicles fizzle out like Segways or will we soon be entering into this new territory? In a recent survey published on RideGuru, respondents were asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[96,1133,1132,97,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}