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GARY PETERS CALLS FOR
AUTO CYBERSECURITY
LAB IN METRO DETROIT
AMERICANS ARE
AFRAID OF SELF
DRIVING CARS
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., wants to
establish a national laboratory for auto-
motive cybersecurity
in a former General
Motors manufactur-
ing site and historic
World War II-era
bomber-building
facility at Willow
Run in Ypsilanti
Township.
Sen. Gary
The 332-acre site
Peters
is being developed as
an $80 million auto-
mated-vehicle testing facility to comple-
ment a newly minted 60-acre research
site at the University of Michigan.
Peters, a member of the Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation overseeing auto safety,
thinks a lab dedicated to cybersecurity
would be a logical extension of Willow
Run.
“No question, we need a national
facility,” Peters told a cybersecu-
rity forum hosted by U.K.-based
TU-Automotive, parent company to
WardsAuto, which reported on his com-
ments. “These exist in other parts of the
world, and we have to be competitive.”
Peters was taking part in the
TU-Automotive Cybersecurity USA
conference in Novi. He also said the U.S.
has a shortage of cybersecurity experts,
specifically in the auto industry.
Peters recently hosted a hearing on
auto cybersecurity in Washington to
bring his fellow lawmakers up to speed
on the auto industry.
“We are on the cusp of seeing incred-
ible change in the industry,” Peters
said.
Three out of four U.S. drivers report
feeling “afraid” to ride in a self-driving
car, according to a survey from AAA.
With today’s heightened focus on
autonomous vehicles, AAA says that
this fear poses a potential concern to
the automotive industry as consumers
may be reluctant to fully embrace the
self-driving car.
Despite this significant fear, AAA
also found that drivers who own vehi-
cles equipped with semi-autonomous
features are, on average, 75 percent
more likely to trust the technology
than those who do not own it, sug-
gesting that gradual experience with
these advanced features can ease con-
sumer fears.
“With the rapid advancement
toward autonomous vehicles,
American drivers may be hesitant to
give up full control,” said John Nielsen,
AAA’s managing director of automo-
tive engineering and repair. “What
Americans may not realize is that the
building blocks toward self-driving
cars are already in today’s vehicles,
and the technology is constantly
improving and well-trusted by those
who have experienced it.”
While only one in five Americans
say they would trust an autonomous
vehicle to drive itself, AAA’s survey
revealed that consumer demand for
semi-autonomous vehicle technology
is high. Nearly two-thirds (61 percent)
of American drivers report wanting
at least one of the following technolo-
gies on their next vehicle: automatic
emergency braking, adaptive cruise
control, self-parking technology or
lane-keeping assist.
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