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Driverless cars may increase cases of motion sickness or kinetosis, to give it it’s official title . There are already a few autonomous or self-driving cars being taken for test drives on the streets of the world. It’s an exciting innovation, but one of the biggest concerns that car manufacturers have about this new motoring development – and one that they don’t like talking about – is that driverless cars may make more people motion sick.
This is because people that suffer from sickness while traveling by car, don’t normally suffer when they are driving. They are focused on the road ahead and the task of driving and they are rarely afflicted by motion sickness. Take the role of driving away from the people who traditionally drive and statistically you are going to see an increase in motion sickness.
People who are susceptible to motion sickness when passengers will be reluctant to give up their driving role if it turns a pleasant experience unpleasant. This is a problem for the self-driving-car market because one of its chief selling points will be that autonomous driving gives people the opportunity to get on with other activities while being driven – catching up on TV shows, reading, emailing, knitting – undertaking any of these things will likely make any nausea worse. This section of the car-buying market is not going to be sold on this.
As between five and ten percent of the global population is thought to have a tendency to suffer from car motion sickness, it has never been given a high priority when it comes to allocating funding and garnering interest into research in this field. Now the car manufacturers, keen to drive autonomous car sales, have an incentive to find a cure and quickly. Behind the scenes, a lot of bucks are being thrown into research in this area.
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(Photo by Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Driverless cars may increase cases of motion sickness or kinetosis, to give it it’s official title . There are already a few autonomous or self-driving cars being taken for test drives on the streets of the world. It’s an exciting innovation, but one of the biggest concerns that car manufacturers have about this new motoring development – and one that they don’t like talking about – is that driverless cars may make more people motion sick.
This is because people that suffer from sickness while traveling by car, don’t normally suffer when they are driving. They are focused on the road ahead and the task of driving and they are rarely afflicted by motion sickness. Take the role of driving away from the people who traditionally drive and statistically you are going to see an increase in motion sickness.
People who are susceptible to motion sickness when passengers will be reluctant to give up their driving role if it turns a pleasant experience unpleasant. This is a problem for the self-driving-car market because one of its chief selling points will be that autonomous driving gives people the opportunity to get on with other activities while being driven – catching up on TV shows, reading, emailing, knitting – undertaking any of these things will likely make any nausea worse. This section of the car-buying market is not going to be sold on this.
As between five and ten percent of the global population is thought to have a tendency to suffer from car motion sickness, it has never been given a high priority when it comes to allocating funding and garnering interest into research in this field. Now the car manufacturers, keen to drive autonomous car sales, have an incentive to find a cure and quickly. Behind the scenes, a lot of bucks are being thrown into research in this area.
