Argumentative Essay On Self-Driving Cars

There is no denying that technology is advancing, however, would you like to sit in the passenger seat while your self-driving car chauffeur you around? Would you like to share your car with everyone? When you get ready to go somewhere you just call a car (like a taxi cab) to come get you and tell it where to take you. Recent articles say that Google has been developing a car and started testing it on the roads in 2012. Although the evolution in technology is advancing, self-driving cars may seem like a good idea, but we should take time to look at all aspects of these cars because they could be proven unnecessary, there will still be accidents, and they will take away jobs. It has been said that self-driving vehicles would be more efficient including semi-trucks. “Autonomous trucks can coordinate their movements to platoon closely together over long stretches of highway, cutting down on wind drag and saving on fuel. And letting the truck drive itself part of the time figures to help truckers complete their routes sooner” (Freedman par 6) In addition to efficiency self-driving cars also give families more freedom to travel on our

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 94 percent of accidents are due to human error, which brought about the awareness of wearing seat belts and drunk driving. New Hampshire is the only state without a seatbelt law, fifteen other states have a seatbelt law, but it is a secondary law, the other 34 states have the seatbelt law as their primary law. In 2015 there were 35,092 fatal accidents which are 2,000 more than in 2014. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety stated, “Nearly half of the 2015 fatalities involved unbelted drivers or passengers, about a third were alcohol-related and at least 3,000 or about 10 percent, resulted from distracted driving” (Kennerly par