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Advocates for self-driving cars love to tout the benefits the cars would bring,

such as fewer accidents and less congestion.

Another alleged value of being a passenger rather than a driver is more productivity.

You could work rather than concentrate on driving. But most people

might not spend their newfound free time and self-driving cars whittling down their to-do lists.

That's according to a study by Michael Sivak and Brian Schottel at the University of Michigan's

Sustainable Worldwide Transportation Program. The researchers surveyed people in the U.S., Australia, China, India,

Japan, and the U.K. And about 62% of respondents said self-driving cars would not make them

more productive. For one thing, 23% of the groups said they won't ride in a self-driving car in the

first place. And then there are the people who get motion sickness. They obviously can't work.

Plus, another 36% said they'd be too concerned to do anything but watch the road.

The researchers also noted that most trips average 19 minutes, not really long enough to get

anything truly substantial done, or to catch some quality z's. Of course, the level of apprehension people experience

in self-driving cars or about getting into them may change in the long run. But this study is

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