happen, occur because of human error, however, removing the human aspect of driving should, theoretically, eliminate the possibility of those mistakes. Drunk driving would no longer happen, speeding wouldn’t occur, and traffic jam caused by accidents are a thing of the past. With the proper adjustments made to our current technology autonomous driving could completely eliminate accidents caused from driving and create a safer world for the future generations to grow up in. All across the nation the average commute to work is twenty-six minutes according to the US Census Bureau. According to Washington post writer Kat Ruddell, “ At an average of twenty-six minutes each way to work, five days a week, fifty weeks a year, that works out to a total …show more content…
No matter how good the driver is, no matter how long they have been driving, there is always room for human error. Often times, the error ends up permanently crippling a person or worse, costing them their lives. The premise that we need to sit idly by and let this continue to happen simply because we refuse to give up control of our vehicles is just wrong. With the development of autonomous driving, we could eliminate the human aspect of driving entirely, and as a result we would eliminate the possibility of human error. Once the human aspect of driving is gone we could eliminate terrible events such as drunk driving. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, every two hours three people are killed in alcohol related crashes. In other terms that is thirty-six people a day, two hundred-fifty-two people a week, or 13,104 people a year. By eliminating the possibility of drunk people wrecking into anyone it can be assumed that those 13,104 people would be able to go home and see their families again. That is 13,104 people who could have potentially, discovered the cure of cancer, or become the next president. Instead they are dead, and it is all thanks to the human condition. The stupidity of others murders thousands of people ever year. If the drunk person isn't in control of their vehicle then those people are …show more content…
The arguments for autonomous driving are fully focused around those central ideas. Why allow human error to ruin anything else good simply because we don't want to give up control of our vehicles. The arguments for self-driving vehicles aren't bad arguments they simply don't take into account the simple fact that at this time, the technology is horribly unreliable and the loss of jobs would tank our already weak economy even more. Why should the best interests of the people be thrown out to benefit a flawed system? The more common autonomous driving becomes, the more of a bane on our society autonomous driving becomes. This is the point where there needs to be a decision made. The long term health of the economy, of the nation, and the world, or benefits to the minority of people. The people who have worked hard every day and will end up replaced by machines, making the job market more crowded and the unemployment lines longer. The only benefits are to the corporations that lead the charge on autonomous driving and to the consumer who only needs to commute to and from work every day. Millions of jobs will be lost in the truck driving business, in the taxi-cab business, in the ride-share business, and in the automotive dealership industry. Would the loss of all of those jobs reaally be a viable, and acceptable loss for a bit more safety and and extra hour of work?
If an engineer makes a single mistake or does not do his job correctly then that could cost the lives of pedestrians and the safety of other cars on the road. In Joseph A. Dallegro’s article “ How Google’s Self-Driving Car Will Change Everything,” he claims, “... injured parties in a crash involving a self-driving car may choose to sue the vehicle's manufacturer, or the software company that designed the autonomous capability.” This goes to show that if one singular person makes a mistake, it could mean that multiple factors will be affected. However, this does not mean that all the blame should be put on the self-driving car, there is human error involved in there situations. Even if there is human error, the self-driving car can have mistakes throughout it if the maintenance of the car is not watched and cared for
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.
Driving while drunk is one of the very dangerous things in the life of a driver. Drivers who work under high Blood Alcohol Concentration also known as (BAC) usually expressed as a percentage of ethanol in the blood consisting of alcohol per volume of blood or alternatively mass of alcohol per mass of blood. These drivers are at a great increase of car risk accidents, vehicular deaths as well as highway risks. Drinking under the Influence commonly known as DUI simply refers to driving a motor vehicle while one has level of alcohol in their blood exceeding the legal limit. This is not limited to alcoholic content but covers other drugs that include but are not limited to prescription drugs. This leads the driver to lack coordination, experience double vision, brief blackouts and have a slurred speech. Driving under the influence causes brain impairment leading to a person feeling that they can manage a situation just like they have always handled it before. This is always as a result of poor reasoning and judgment which leaves one vulnerable to the deadly effects of drunk driving.
Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major cause of fatal car accidents. It is actually said to be one of the main causes of death in the world. There needs to be stricter laws and more educators teaching and forcing people to stop driving under the influence and making sure that everyone on the road is safe from harm. It would be great to see zero arrests and zero drunk driving accidents in the world. No one knows when that will ever happen.
One reason driverless cars should replace human drivers is because they are safer and offer a comprehensive solution to a problem that plagues the entire world – automobile accidents. Currently, according to Ryan C. C. Chin, around 1.2 million deaths occur worldwide each year due to automotive accidents (1) and in the U.S. alone “more than 37,000 people died in car accidents in 2008, 90% of which died from human mistake” (Markoff 2). Most of these accidents involving human error are caused by fatigued, inattentive, or intoxicated drivers. However, according to Sergey Brin’s the Pros and...
Do you know how many people die every day in the United States due to drunk driving? If not, here is the answer, approximately twenty-eight people die because of drunk driving. There is not a day that has gone by without having an auto accident relating intoxicated drivers and no days without an ambulance running on the street with emergency lights on chasing for victims. In 2014, 1.1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence and 9,967 people were killed in alcohol related crashes. Alcohol slows down the activity of the person’s central nervous system, including the brain which makes them react slower and reduce concentration while driving. In order for one to drive safe, he/she has to be sober and active without any distraction.
Almost every adult you encounter can say they have been drunk or slightly intoxicated some point throughout their life, but how many can admit to drunk driving. The use of alcohol when driving is completely frivolous and endangers the lives of others that share the road or is even a passenger in the vehicle. Penalties for DUIs should be harsher as if it was attempted murder or drug use. With the slightest mistake or misjudgment can cost you your own life or the life of someone else.
Progressively there are more accidents happening every year as a result of drunk driving, and these drunk drivers should be greatly penalized, if you drive hammered you should get nailed! Driving drunk is considered to be one of the most severe crimes in almost every state because the driver is not only risking there life they are putting everyone else’s life in danger on the road. Every 22 minutes, someone will die in an alcohol-related traffic accident. Although you probably think that it could never happen to you, experts say everyone has a 40-percent chance of being in a crash involving alcohol use sometime in their life. Being intoxicated while driving is dangerous to your health and the well-being of others.
Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving had her life greatly affected due to other people driving while intoxicated. It started when her daughter Serena was 18 months old and Candy’s car was hit from the rear by a drunken driver causing slight injury to Serena. Only six years later her son Travis was run over and very seriously injured yet again by a driver under the influence and over the legal limit. Later on Lightner's 13-year-old daughter Cari was walking to a church carnival when she was struck from behind by a drunken driver who briefly passed out. Cari was hit and thrown over 125 feet and left on the side of the road dead. To add insult to the tragedy, the driver of the vehicle had been charged with several previous counts of impaired driving, had been convicted 3 times, and was just released on bail two days earlier. That may just sound like a surplus of bad luck for this one family, but drunk driver related fatalities are much more common than some people may realize. The National Transportation Safety Board reports at least 10,000 fatalities each year due to drunken driving (Wald). The problems associated with drunk driving include; repeat offenders and alcohol related fatalities, however, we could all help to solve this problem by getting involved, enforcing strict laws and punishments, and utilizing new technology.
It might be hard to see where the self-driving car could have issues with safety but an interesting question arises when an accident is unavoidable. The question posed is “How should the car be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable accident? Should it minimize the loss of life, even if it means sacrificing the occupants, or should it protect the occupants at all costs? Should it choose between these extremes at random?” (ArXiv). This is a very interesting question surrounding ethics. I’m not sure if there is a right answer to the question, which could stall the self-driving car industry. Before self-driving cars are mass produced a solution needs to be found to the question about unavoidable accidents. Although this question is a problem, there may not be a need to address the problem. It is said that “"driver error is believed to be the main reason behind over 90 percent of all crashes" with drunk driving, distracted drivers, failure to remain in one lane and falling to yield the right of way the main causes.” (Keating). Self-driving cars could eliminate those problems entirely and maybe with all cars on the road being self-driving cars, there would be no “unavoidable accidents”. Safety is the main issue the self-driving car is trying to solve in transportation and seems to do a good job at
Inventors hope to help people with autonomous cars because “autonomous cars can do things that human drivers can’t” (qtd. in “Making Robot Cars More Human). One of the advantages that driverless cars have is that “They can see through fog or other inclement weather, and sense a stalled car or other hazard ahead and take appropriate action” (qtd. in “Making Robot Cars More Human). Harsh weather conditions make it difficult and dangerous for people to drive, however, the car’s ability to drive through inclement weather “frees the user’s time, creates opportunities for individuals with less mobility, and increases overall road safety” (Bose 1326). With all the technology and software in the car, it can “improve road traffic system[s] and reduces road accidents” (Kumar). One of the purposes for creating the driverless car was to help “make lives easier for senior citizens, people with disabilities, people who are ill, or people who are under influence of alcohol” (Kumar). It can be frightening to know that that we share share our roads with drivers that could potentially endanger our lives as well as other people’s lives. How can people not feel a sense of worry when “cars kill roughly 32,000 people a year in the U.S.” (Fisher 60)? Drivers who text while driving or drink and drive greatly impact the safety of other people, and Google hopes to reduces the risk of accidents and save lives with the
Human drivers have instincts that cannot be duplicated by technology, but by that same token human error is not a part of a self-driving car. In addition, we also need to take into consideration the transition period, when there are self-driving cars as well as human drivers on the road. Humans can notice the other drivers physically signal to go-ahead, when at a four way stop sign or; offer an opening for the merging lane. This is an example of what human interaction is capable of, that self-driving cars will need to calculate in order to
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
The engineering that goes into a driverless car covers all areas of mechanics, computing software and so on which still tends to frighten some drivers of its monstrosity on the inside. In the article “Google Cars Becoming Safer: Let the Robots Drive” it states that, “The economic lift from ridding the roads of human-driven vehicles would be over $190 billion per year. That would primarily come from reducing property damage caused by low-speed collisions”(Salkever). The point is that when driverless cars hit the road the cost of low-speed collision and save consumers money will be reduced. In the article “ Google Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers” Slakever states that “One Google car, in a test in 2009, couldn’t get through a four-way stop because its sensors kept waiting for other (human) drivers to stop completely and let it go. The human drivers kept inching forward, looking for the advantage — paralyzing Google’s robot”(Bosker). Current drivers have never followed the rule of the road, which have made the road more prone to any accident. Drivers have found the upper hand on not following traffic laws that makes manufacturing driverless car more meticulous to decrease accidents and breaking traffic laws. The fact that driverless car sensors can detect the errors of other human driven car is extraordinary. Human driven cars are trying to stick to the status quo of the roads when in reality human driven cars are breaking valuable innovation that will make the roads safe for generations to
Imagine being in a bar with a few of your good friends. Everyone is drinking and having a good time. Your are going to leave and go home, but you friends won't let you because they know the dangers of driving after having a few drinks. Instead they ca ll a cab to give you a ride home. You would be extremely lucky to have such smart friends. Drunk driving is a very serious problem in our society today, but it is becomming socially unacceptable causing the numbers of alcohol related traffic fatalites t o decline considerably.