Half of the drivers are willing to abandon their cars in favor of the unmanned taxi

German analyst Roland Berger recently conducted a study, which revealed that almost half of car owners are ready to transfer to the unmanned taxi, if this transport will be cheaper than having own vehicle.

The survey, which took place in February this year, was conducted in ten countries on different continents, where 46% of people confirmed their possible choice in favor of machines with the autopilot. Was interviewed 1000 car owners from Japan, China, the Netherlands, France, USA, UK, Germany, South Korea etc. characteristically, most of them are ready to abandon their cars is the most densely populated countries. So, in China, this figure reached the level of 73%, and in the USA – 65%.

In addition, Roland Berger employees were interested in the attitude of respondents to the EVS. About 37% of all 10 countries have confirmed their desire to buy an electric vehicle. With the largest number of such people living in China – 60%. Similar results were shown by the people of South Korea and India, 54% and 51%, respectively. Least of all is the desire expressed in the United States (20%) and Japan (22%).

At this time, many automobile companies to produce various types of testing and testing unmanned vehicles. For example, BMW and Ford are planning to 2021 to produce cars with the autopilot of the fourth and fifth levels. They are trying to get ahead of Tesla by 2018 to release their self-driving cars.