Trust is important because the idea of self-driving cars can inspire both excitement and fear. One the one hand, many experts have hailed the future of self-driving cars as delivering human drivers from their own distracted, sleepy, drunk driving habits and possibly reducing the number of road accidents — the cause of 32,719 deaths in the U.S. alone in 2013. A report by the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., suggested that a future filled with self-driving cars could also ease traffic congestion and save people time during their commutes. On the other hand, more than 75 percent of people surveyed by insurance.com said they would not trust a self-driving car to take their child to school. And only 31 percent of survey respondents said they would let the car’s computer drive whenever possible.