Self-driving vehicles should make roads safer and save energy, but they also might make some people sick.
Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute asked more than 3,200 adults in the United States and five other countries (India, China, Japan, Great Britain, and Australia) what kinds of activities—many of which could cause motion sickness—they would do instead of riding in a fully self-driving vehicle.
More than a third of Americans said they would do things that increase the likelihood and severity of motion sickness—reading, texting, watching movies or television, playing games, or working.
Manufacturers can design self-driving vehicles to lessen the likelihood of motion sickness.
