Persuasive Essay On Self Driving Cars

Did you know that we could be saving over 160 billion dollars on gas and time wasted on traffic if we switched over to self driving cars? Self driving cars could be the future of our cars, because we will pay less for thing we usually buy for the cars, we could save time to our destination, and we will send less people to the emergency room.

First off, we will pay less for things we usually buy for our cars. Self driving cars may be electric which you will save money on by not buying gas instead by using electric, we already spend way too much money on gas so if we have the electric cars it would be cheaper. (USAToday, 2016) Also, we won’t get any speeding tickets, because the car will know how fast it will be going and since it can read the speed limit from the gps it will control how fast it goes.(Forbes, 2016) Besides, we already spend over 160 billion dollars a year on gas and time wasted on traffic which we won't have much traffic with self driving cars because we wouldn’t have accidents creating them. (NPR, 2016) We could save a bunch of money from these cars.

Secondly, we will get to our destination quicker than we usually do. We could multi-task during the ride because we won’t have to worry much about the car which should save time to get everything

The cars could be a huge target for hacking groups, it would be hacked into to go into dangerous places or life threatening places which could lead to many deaths if not much further testing is done.(Rosen, 1, 2016) The cars could mistake a huge white truck for the sky, like back in 2015 a Tesla car was on autopilot and crashed into a white truck mistaking it for the sky. (AIC, 1, 2016) The car sometimes may not be able to see in heavy rain or snow because of its top cap sensor. (axeladdict, 3, 2016) Although, all these features may be bad and need further testing we will still have less than 2.5 million people in the hospitals every