Informative Essay On Self Driving Cars

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Self Driving Cars
Autonomous Vehicles or Self-Driving Cars are projects in development to provide cars that safely drive on their own. The computer artifact shows the features and different uses for the cars. Self-driving cars are developed in order to provide people with safe, hands-free driving without the need for human control, stated in “Self Driving Cars Explained”. The technology is currently being tested for transporting people in cars or carrying shipments in trucks (Davies). The artifact shows the varying uses for the innovation and how the technology functions.

I decided to use Google Slides to create my artifact to provide a simple way to create it. First, I searched for a number of pictures that would best explain the use of Autonomous …show more content…

The cars provide a benefit to society, explained by Johnson, by using sensor technology to “better perceive the environment better than humans.” As a result, It could help provide transport for the elderly and disabled who are not able to drive because of their disabilities. The technology can also “decrease the number of crashes caused by distracted drivers and potentially largely decrease the percentage of accidents”, according to Gemalto.
Although people want self-driving cars for safety on the road, many people believe they still might be endangered by the vehicles. According to Lauren Barack, she discovered from a survey done by AAA, that “68% of drivers in the U.S. worried about riding in a self-driving car”, and that “13% of the people surveyed believed having them on the road is safer.” This shows that people still doubt the safety of the cars. In the previous article by Joel Johnson, he explained that if drivers were to rely on the driverless vehicles when a problem occurs, the driver might not be capable of avoiding an accident because of their decreased

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