Persuasive Essay On Driverless Cars

You know all those commercials for the Samsung Galaxy that say the next big thing is here? Well, they were lying, driverless cars are the next big thing. Cars have been continuously evolving from the first car built in 1886 by Karl Benz. This invention changed the way humans lived, by allowing people to travel farther. This spread out civilizations because people could live miles away from cities, but still be able to have a job there, by traveling each day. This made more space for living, because instead of everyone living in the city, people moved to the suburbs. Ever since the first car, we have been developing and building cars that increase their range and speeds they can do it at. Also, with the increase of technology, companies have started to make cars smarter. Instead of being a tool for humans, they have now

All those countless hours are put to waste if more people are dying from crashes than terrorist attacks. Currently, the death ratio of terrorist attacks to car accidents is 19,000 to 1. Driverless cars will save more lives NSA by preventing 1.2 million deaths annually. For years, the main goal for car manufacturers has been safety. Driverless cars will be able to make transportation much safer. Google was the first company to begin developing driverless cars and they are very close to having them available. The testing of driverless cars has been going on for 7 years and Google’s fleet of driverless cars has driven over one million miles without any accidents caused by the car. This is a major advance in the prevention of accidents. Right now there are 1.3 million deaths worldwide from accidents a year, and an additional 20-50 million injuries a year. Of these accidents, 1.2 million are caused by human error; that's 90%! That means that if everyone had a driverless car, the number of deaths from driving would be less than 100 thousand per