Argumentative Essay On Driverless Cars

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The prospect of autonomous driving continues to be one of the interesting topics of conversation in the general public for quite some time now. A normal busy day with our roads and cities full of self-driving cars/vehicles may still seem impossibly futuristic for many. But this scenario though appears to be an exclusive part of a science fiction film, is not that distant in the future if we go by the developments taking place in this field.

This topic, however, engenders some pertinent questions: are we ready to incorporate such a technology in our current scheme of things? How will safe our future be with self-driving cars? The precise answers to these questions are difficult to give at the moment, but we will try to look into a few important aspects of this concept.

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So the clear surge in these smart technologies inducted into the present day vehicles gives us a promising picture. In various markets around the world, there is already a business of buying and selling of smart cars has started substantially.

However, there are equally telltale signs of concern as far as autonomous driving is concerned. The critics argue that presently we do not have enough data to show that driverless cars are absolutely safe. Currently, there is no way of measuring whether an autonomous vehicle is as safe as or safer than a human-driven car. People, therefore, are also concerned about riding in these autonomous vehicles.

Recently Tesla’s Autopilot car was under severe criticism when it met a fatal accident on a Florida highway. The makers then put a caveat by saying ‘any person sitting in the car needs to keep his/her hands on the steering wheel all the time’. Not long after this incident, Google’s autonomous car also met its first crash in California, which raised obvious

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