Billions Are Being Invested in a Robot That Americans Don't Want

  • Three-quarters of drivers don't want to own an autonomous car
  • One commuter's concern: `It scares the bejeebers out of me'

Rush hour traffic on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles.

Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
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Brian Lesko and Dan Sherman hate the idea of driverless cars, but for very different reasons.

Lesko, 46, a business-development executive in Atlanta, doesn’t trust a robot to keep him out of harm’s way. “It scares the bejeebers out of me,” he says.