https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/aaa-study-self-driving-cars-confidence/

With all the progress automakers and suppliers are making on sensor technologies and software for self-driving cars, surely the idea of an autonomous vehicle is increasingly appealing to the general public? Not so, says a new study from AAA. In the past 5 months, the number of survey respondents who are "too afraid" to ride in a self-driving car leapt from 63 to 73 percent.

AAA says that big drop in confidence comes after several highly publicized accidents involving self-driving prototypes made headlines. A self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March. Around the same time, a Tesla Model X believed to be operating in Autopilot mode crashed into a divider on a highway in California