Only 13% of Europeans would get in a self-driving car, survey finds

The trust gap between European and Chinese consumers on autonomous vehicles is a cultural and regulatory story as much as a technology one — and it matters for how manufacturers will sequence their rollouts globally. Europeans using lane-keep assist and emergency braking daily without thinking twice, yet balking at the label 'self-driving,' tells you the problem is framing and familiarity, not the hardware. For carmakers betting heavily on autonomy, this survey is a reminder that public acceptance is its own engineering challenge, separate from whether the systems actually work. The 13% figure will shape where autonomous programs get real-world testing miles and, eventually, where they get commercialized first.