‘Car nation’ Germany distrustful of driverless vehicles


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 19 Sep 2017

Attendees inspect an Audi AG Aicon electric autonomous automobile during the first media preview day of the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. The 67th IAA opens to the public on Sept. 14 and features must-have vehicles and motoring technology from over 1,000 exhibitors in a space equivalent to 33 soccer fields. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German carmakers are showing off their self-driving cars at the IAA international auto show in Frankfurt, but most people in the car-mad country have yet to be convinced by the technology. 

Curious visitors to the biennial trade fair, which lasts until Sept 24, can entrust their lives to a computer on a specially created car at a test track overlooked by Daimler and Volkswagen’s giant stands. 

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