Chipset maker, Intel is betting on the self driving car to become a common appearance in the highways within 50 years from now.  The American tech stalwart is deep into autonomous vehicle and aspires to lead in the area as it looks to move beyond making processors for computers. Conducting a survey in the country, Intel found that only 21 percent of Americans would swap their cars for self-driving cars today, even though 63 percent expect such vehicles to be the norm in 50 years. That future vision fits with an earlier study in which Intel predicted a passenger-centric future worth $7 trillion by 2050.

In the 2017 passenger report, it found that self-driving vehicles have the potential to save 585,000 lives from 2035 to 2045. But the new study found consumers conflicted about this promise. Nearly half of consumers surveyed said they don’t feel safe around autonomous vehicles (AV) – with women more fearful than men. At the same time, more than half of consumers look forward to the day when they won’t have to drive and expect to be using their car time for entertainment or work within 50 years.

When asked what they expect to do in an autonomous vehicle respondents mostly said to consume entertainment while half said they would socialise.

The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic fatalities by 94 percent by eliminating accidents due to human error. Apart from saving lives on the roads, these cars will no longer be about mobility, they will hold the potential to become experiential transportation pods.