Self-Driving Cars
Who’s to blame when the vehicle gets in a severe car accident? Advances in technology, like self-driving cars, will be bad because it causes people to be lazy, it takes away the responsibility of the driver, it takes away the responsibility of the driver, and it can malfunction causing accidents.
Self driving cars are not a good idea because they cause people to be lazy. This means that with self driving cars, your license wouldn’t mean a lot. To put it in another way, the drivers wouldn’t really depend on their license due to the self-driving car. So when you get pulled over by the police, you get a ticket for something the car did.
Another reason why these cars are bad because it takes away the responsibility of the
Have you ever feared that your loved one or even someone very close to you will be involved in a fatal car accident every time they left the house? Drunk driving is a factor in nearly one-third of all fatal accidents. Even if you aren’t the one driving, you are still at risk any moment to get involved in an accident that could’ve been prevented. By legalizing fully self-driving cars, we won’t have to fear the pain of losing a loved one. We could have a quick fix to all of this madness easily. The number of traffic accidents are soaring at 1.3 million deaths a year. Drunk Driving is still one of the number one causes of vehicle deaths; therefore, the government should allow self-driving cars to become legal to combat the issue. If we don’t act now to combat this issue we will have to deal with the consequences it will bring.
While there have been surveys to understand how people feel about self-driving vehicles, they only surveyed a little over a thousand, which isn’t comparable to the millions of people who actually drive cars (Degroat). Many, more than 70 percent, do believe that autonomic vehicles will reduce accidents, the severity of the crash, and help the fuel economy, nearly as many are concerned about the way the car will perform under unusual or unexpected circumstances, as compared to the way a human could react and perform, along with if the vehicle would have any system malfunctions (Degroat). Even though the car companies are working on the technology to make the cars safe and dependable, it would be easy for someone to “hack” into the vehicle to steal it, or take personal information from the vehicle like where they have been and where they plan to go (Degroat). Many also wonder how well the car will do under different climate and driving circumstances; will the car’s mechanics and equipment work well in a tropical or artic like environment, or how will it interact in New York City as opposed to a very rural and rugged environment like a farm. With the sensors and cameras attached to the car, will it be able to tell the difference and respond differently among other vehicles, pedestrians, and non-motored objects on the
Some of these benefits would include having fewer accidents, less traffic congestion, increased highway captivity, lower fuel consumption, and enhanced human productivity. Self-driving cars seem to be at the forefront of innovation and safety. Self-driving cars are revolutionizing how we get around for decades to come. His main goal is to transition into more sustainable energy and to be less reliant on fossil fuels.
The goals behind self-driving cars are to decrease collisions, traffic jams and the use of gas and harmful pollutants. The autonomous automobile is able to maneuver around objects and create swift lines of cars on roadways (How Google’s self-Driving Car Works, 2011). The autonomous vehicle can react faster than humans can, meaning less accidents and the potential to save thousands of lives. Another purpose and vision for these cars is that vehicles would become a shared resource. When someone needed a car, he or she could just use his or her Smartphone and a self-sufficient car would drive up and pick him or her up.
After reading the article I have concluded that the idea of self-driving cars sounds more so than ever like a plausible reality rather than another eccentric sci-fi topic. Aside from morality and subjective perceptions on the practice of self-driving cars I believe that the most major problem would the financial effect self-driving cars can have on America's financial infrastructure. The implementation of self-driving cars would almost quickly eliminate millions of jobs that would be made obsolete, unemployment rates would rise exponentially but that's not where the obstacles stop. Although this was not mentioned on the cons list it was hinted at. Self-driving cars have little to no security measures so that begs to question as to how software developers will combat hackers and software
Moreover, accidents could not only happen because persons fail to override the system when they should have, but also because people override it when there really was no danger of the system causing an accident (Douma & Palodichuk, 2012). As the level of sophistication of autonomous cars improves, the possibility of interventions by the driver might cause more accidents than it helps to avoid. But even assuming such intervention was possible, if the person in question were sufficiently focussed, one might still question if people would be able to keep up the necessary attention over longer periods of time. Fully autonomous vehicles will only be market-ready (we assumed) once they drive more safely than the average human driver does. Of course, a driver may be aware of and responsible for his level of alertness.
Imagine being the only human controlled car on the road surrounded by heartless, autonomous, automobiles, scary right? Autonomous, or self driving, cars are on the rise, but they may be more dangerous than initially thought. One hundred percent of cars on the road as of right now are human driven (Peterson, 38). A sudden addition of autonomous cars could seriously harm the safety of our roads. Due to factors such as, lack of human reasoning, human-autonomous driver interaction, and complications with legal affairs and insurance, it is not reasonable to implement self driving cars into traffic as it could put many drivers, passengers, and civilians, at risk despite safety measures taken by automotive manufacturers.
They’re not the future of driving - because they’re already here. And they work really, really well. Remember, they don’t need to be perfect, they just need to be better than us. Given that self-driving cars aren’t drunk, don’t text and drive, aren’t stupid, and don’t get sleepy - it’s pretty easy to see them being a lot better than humans - because they kind of already are. With self-driving cars, lowering the 40,000 yearly vehicle deaths in the US alone should be an easy task.
still the driver’s fault because the cars are still level 3 and are not meant to be used without human supervision and this happens because the computer along with its software fails to recognize dangerous situations and thus prevent collisions. As the report, Self-Driving Cars: Mapping Access to a Technology Revolution suggest, “Passenger safety is reliant on software understanding the nature of threats posed by the environment. It also must be immune to harmful threats imposed by humans through the introduction of viruses or remote intervention over wireless networks” (National Council on Disability, 23). In other words, the programming of the software not only needs to be perfect imitating humans’ reaction at the moment of an emergency,
...omous car makers can make profits from it, consumers may have privacy risks. It is not good to promote autonomous cars until the DMV study this cautiously and get the rules right.
That’s probably crosses every adults mind when they are driving to work. Using self-driving cars will give the adults so much more time to either relax or finish the paper that needed to be written for work. “But seriously, if we have the option of turning over the driving to a (sort of) artificial intelligence, we could put that time to use doing any number of other things, productive or otherwise” (When the self-driving car revolution comes, how will you spend your free time in your vehicle? 2017). Forgot to do something for a friend?
As self-driving cars have become more popular in 2017, plenty of states have introduced legislation in support of these interesting vehicles. What you may not know is that the government expects self-driving systems to make people pay more attention to the road. Having an interest in these types of cars myself, I believe that the government is doing the right thing. There are many benefits of self-driving cars and with the government taking effect, everyone will have a self-driving car in no time. The former president, Barack Obama, has even commented on this issue.
Self-driving cars should not be on the road because they come with many dangerous factors, disadvantages, and with all these dangers and disadvantages, they may not be as great as they are brought up to be. There are dangerous factors that come with having a computer control a car rather
Automotive executives touting self-driving cars as a way to make commuting more productive or relaxing may want to consider another potential marketing pitch: safety (Hirschauge, 2016). The biggest reason why these cars will make a safer world is that accident rates will enormously drop. There is a lot of bad behavior a driver exhibit behind the wheel, and a computer is actually an ideal motorist. Since 81 percent of car crashes are the result of human error, computers would take a lot of danger out of the equation entirely. Also, some of the major causes of accidents are drivers who become ill at the time of driving. Some of the examples of this would be a seizure, heart attack, diabetic reactions, fainting, and high or low blood pressure. Autonomous cars will surely remedy these types of occurrences making us
It is difficult to understand that the basic function of a automobile hasn’t changed in the past 106 years.