What are people's perceptions of driverless cars?

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Catherine Cruz

Published June 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM HST

FILE - A Waymo driverless taxi drives on the street during a test ride in San Francisco, on Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

On The Long View, we talk about driverless cars. HPR's contributing editor Neal Milner shares his insights on new research about autonomous vehicles that could change your perception of them.

Further reading:

Empowering safer socially sensitive autonomous vehicles using human-plausible cognitive encoding by Hongliang Lu, Meixin Zhu, Chao Lu, Shuo Feng, Xuesong Wang, Yinhai Wang and Hai Yang
Driverless cars need to be more human, study finds by Tim Marcin for Mashable
The Trolley Problem by Harry Shearer and Nigel Warburton for BBC Radio 4

This interview aired on The Conversation on June 4, 2025. The Conversation airs weekdays at 11 a.m.