(May 29, 2012) A poll by Motorpoint,  a UK automotive sales group, finds that UK Motorists would not be comfortable with using a self-driving car such as the Google car. The company polled nearly 2,000 of their website users and found that 58% were not keen on letting a computer take the wheel.

This survey comes in the wake of Nevada granting the Google self-driving car its first permit. With California expected to follow Nevada in granting the car permission to take to public roads we may soon see similar technology in Britain, so Motorpoint asked if UK motorists would welcome a sentient car taking them for a spin.

It seems that although 42% were prepared to sit back and let a computer do the work, the majority of motorists are not quite ready to hand over the pleasure of driving cars.