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Carmakers – Trust Us On Autonomous Cars

Germany's biggest carmakers have called for road users to trust them when it comes to the development of self-driving cars. In fact, in the face of growing distrurt from the general public towards carmakers following the likes of dieselgate, Audi i


Germany's biggest carmakers have called for road users to trust them when it comes to the development of self-driving cars.

In fact, in the face of growing distrurt from the general public towards carmakers following the likes of dieselgate, Audi is even willing to accept responsibility should anything go wrong while using one of its autonomous driving modes.

The German car industry is leading a push for autonomous vehicles, with Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen presenting thinly-veiled concepts at this week’s Frankfurt Motor Show pointing to electric, self-driving models likely to go on sale before 2020. 

Before that happens, carmakers are trying to win support for emerging tech that has the potential to change motoring forever.

Daimler chair and Mercedes-Benz head of passenger cars, Dieter Zetsche, told reporters in Frankfurt “there has been a loss of trust – trust in the German car industry’s power of innovation and sustainability, and I regret that very much”.

Audi research and development boss Peter Mertens agreed with Dr Zetsche.

“Of course there is a loss of trust in the car industry,” Mertens said.

“We have to build that trust back up, and we work hard on that. Integrity, ethics etc, play a much higher value and role in our organisation than it ever did before.”

Dr Mertens told Australian reporters that belief in the capabilities of technology was essential to the roll-out of self-driving cars.

Audi unveiled a production-ready A8 sedan (pictured, below) in Frankfurt with self-driving capabilities that go beyond any model currently on the road. 

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