Persuasive Essay On Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles are the talk of rising and successful car companies, for example, Tesla, but are they really proved to be the safest way of driving as such companies claim it to be? Autonomous vehicles shouldn’t be allowed as a way of transport on the road for many reasons. First of all, autonomous vehicles, like all technology can have glitches as well as faults in its programming, second, autonomous vehicles can get hacked by exterior sources, last of all, autonomous vehicles affect not only safety but other industries. Autonomous vehicles are not only unsafe to us, humans but they can affect small auto repair business who simply run on things like accidents involving cars. To elaborate, autonomous cars aren’t glitch-free, meaning that someone could easily miss a detail in programming. Autonomous cars can only be programmed to do things to a certain extent. Companies can’t

Auto repair companies, car insurance companies, all of these wouldn’t have anything to sell because if autonomous cars are already accident-proof, then car repairs wouldn’t be as necessary and car insurance would be useless. This could cause a domino effect, for example if autonomous cars are completely accident proof, then insurance and auto repair companies wouldn’t be needed anymore in the industry. Resulting in less income for the companies that sell tires or machine parts to those industries. Not to mention other car companies which don’t sell autonomous vehicles, no one would want regular cars when everyone would want the new and improved self-driving vehicles. All of this affects parts of the car industry and small businesses won’t be able to survive in this bustling economy of self-driving