What if I told you that in the future you wouldn’t have to worry about paying attention to the road while in the car? It almost sounds unbelievable, right? Not anymore, as technology advances, so does our imagination. Last year the Self-Driving car had driven over two million miles. Technology is only increasing more and more each year. Technology has highly developed over the years, which have led to new automobiles that makes driving stress-free for drivers. As technology advances, it also improves the materialistic things we have in life. This includes phones, computers, television, airplanes, buses, trains, and more importantly cars. Not only has technology changed materialistic things in life, but also other very imported things. This …show more content…
It is troubling knowing that most of these accidents could have been prevented. “According to the Center for Disease Control, fatalities from traffic accidents happen on an annual basis upward to 33,000 people." The ("Top 20 Pros and Cons Associated with Self-Driving Cars") new Self-Driving Cars will help prevent these type of accidents. There are multiple reasons why the Self-Driving car is more secure and can decrease the number of accidents dramatically. “We explored what fully self-driving cars could be like by designing a new prototype vehicle from the ground up. These vehicles had custom sensors, computers, steering and braking, but no steering wheels or pedals.” ("Journey – Waymo") When you tell a computerized vehicle to do something for you 99% times they will listen and do it, however if you tell a human being to do something for you and they don’t agree with you they probably won’t do it. So in that case, technology has a better chance of listening to you unlike us human. It is a good car for people who just got off work and is extremely drowsy and overwhelmed and can’t really pay attention to the road, so that’s when Self-Driving comes in handy and just takes you to your …show more content…
People with disabilities can finally say that they got transported in the car alone without any troubles. It could allow a user to travel further to work, explore areas which aren't served by public transportation and basically organize their own lives, whereas in the past this might not have been possible. This is an amazing convertible for them and engineers across the world are making a huge impact in our lives. People with disabilities can finally go to places alone in the car and won’t have to worry about driving or paying attention to the road. I believe that it’s an incredible vehicle and will help out a lot of people to always do things that they’ve wanted to do. Self-Driving Cars are great for people with disabilities because the ones that are blind and the ones that cannot drive won’t need to rely on people to transport those places. There are different types of addiction out there, one is how people HAVE to text on their phones constantly and not pay attention to the road. Or if they have to pick up a phone call, or snapchat, and take their eyes of the road for a couple a seconds they can jeopardize their lives in a matter of seconds. Many people also live very busy lives and they are always in a hurry. Therefore most people who are always in a hurry, eat most of their meals while they are on the road. Although this is not safe, it is
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
Over time, there have been several technological advancements that have shaped the world in which we live and are familiar with today, and one advancement, in particular, that has influenced American society significantly is the automobile. Since the automobile’s beginning, it has continuously been improved and modified pushing the rest of technology to keep up with its rapid pace of innovation. Americans have frequently taken advantage of the automobile’s many benefits, but what they often fail to realize is that the automobile has given American society more than just the luxury of driving. In fact, the automobile has influenced this nation and the people within it both historically and culturally
Who’s to blame when the vehicle gets in a severe car accident? Advances in technology, like self-driving cars, will be bad because it causes people to be lazy, it takes away the responsibility of the driver, it takes away the responsibility of the driver, and it can malfunction causing accidents.
There will be a day when driving will not require a license. Children will be traveling on their own, teens will be texting while driving, adults will be doing their jobs while driving, and the elderly who are visually or physically impaired will be able to transport themselves (Symonds). This will be made possible through new technological car advancements that will enable a car to be driverless. With technology increasing exponentially, and our everyday lives getting busier and busier, we need a solution. Weeks of productivity are lost each year by Americans (Pollette). Driverless cars will cause this issue to vanish by reducing delays and smoothing traffic flow (Winston). Most technology will have flaws, and this is also true for driverless cars’ technology. Improvements are being made to enhance the car (Pollette), but accidents will still take place. Despite the flaws, driverless cars will make trips shorter, and when trips are long, we will be able to multitask.
Driving a car safely requires complete attention of the driver in order to minimize risk of accidents. With the fast pace and busy lives of people today, sometimes risky choices are made, like texting or making calls while driving, even though it is unsafe and against the law. Calling a taxi to drive you to your destination is a safer alternative, but could be expensive over time. Imagine being able to safely and affordably drive to your desired destination while eating breakfast, reviewing business documents, and/or making phone calls en route. This vision is possible with self-driving cars, but what consideration must be taken into account to make this a reality?
Imagine having your life flash before your eyes while you were still wearing diapers. And imagine having a hot hunk of metal crash into you and shatter your sense of everything. When I was just three years old, I was the victim of a very scary car accident. While waiting to make a turn into my nursery school, my mom’s car was rear-ended by a car driving at 50 miles per hour. I remember how incredibly loud the collision was and even how the windows seemed to shiver in their rubber holders. Seeing my mom's head fly back and feeling the car swerve into the opposing traffic, I thought I was going to die. And why did this happen? Because the person driving behind us was texting on her phone and was not focused on the road. All of this, the emotional, physical, and financial damage, and the possibility of losing my mom's or my own life, could have been prevented if the car behind us was a driverless car. Briefly, a driverless car is capable of driving itself via an intricate system of cameras, sensors and computers. I propose that human drivers should be replaced with driverless cars because driverless cars are safer and more efficient.
The Bechdel Test is an evaluation of a movie to gauge how women are represented in a film. Any movie can be tested by asking three questions : Are there two or more women in the movie who have names, do they talk to each other? Do they talk to each other about something other than a man? These questions don’t rate the quality or if a movie is misogynistic, but indicate the type of presence women have in films After watching the Barbie movie last week, I concluded that this movie passed the Bechdel test. There are plenty of women featured, such as the main character being Barbie.
In 2010, Google broadcasted that they created an archetype of a car that can drive itself; its purpose, to avert collisions, allow citizens more time, and cut down on harmful pollutants that vehicles produce (Poczter & Jankovic, 2014). The heart of the self-driving automobile is lasers that are mounted on the roof of a modified Toyota Prius that produces a precise three-dimensional atlas of the area surrounding the car. Furthermore, the automobile is outfitted with four radars, and another laser around the vehicle that allows it to precisely create a 3-D map of its surroundings (Poczter & Jankovic, 2014). The vehicle calculates the laser dimensions with high-resolution maps of the globe, which allows it to drive itself without human intervention, while evading obstacles and obeying traffic laws (How Google’s self-Driving Car Works, 2011).
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
The use of technology makes our daily tasks easier, such as a better sense of direction while driving via a GPS, safety features in our cars such as Auto Drive and Auto Park. These technologies have made driving an easier and enjoyable experience as well as reducing our chances of getting into accidents. The research presented in the following article “Driven to Distraction [in car technology]” provided surprising conclusions. Professor John D Lee from the University of Iowa states the following issue: “Technology is changing very quickly. Many of these things coming into the car were not designed to be used in it.”(Edwards 8). He proves that there are a lot of in car technologies in today’s society that can demand our full attention without us even knowing, and can lead to tremendous consequences that can become dangerous distractions on the road. Satellite navigation (GPS) makes our lives easier because it can give us the correct directions to a desired address. This is unlike the past where the navigationally challenged would consider it a nightmare to drive to a new location.
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
Another safety benefit of the self-driving car is the issue of unsafe teen drivers on the roads. In a study conducted by Sheila Sarkar and Marie Andreas, fifty five percent of 1,430 teenage drivers admitted to engaging in risky behaviors while driving (Sarkar 687). The newscast regularly reports about fatal car accidents which involved teen drivers who were racing or driving drunk. In addition, teen drivers are a novice on the road and have a learning curve, this at times can be dangerous. Self-driving cars would not have the learning curve nor would they have the urge to drive unsafe like many teens
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
There is a research that shows the quantity of the traffic accidents in the United States and the main reasons of accidents that occur because of driver’s mistakes. Alcohol, drug involvement, distraction and fatigue, are the reasons of more than 40% of the deadly accidents. Human error, for instance; feeling tired while driving long distances and feeling sleeping while driving are causing crashes on the streets. So, in general it shows that the driver error cause over 90% of accidents. As a result, autonomous vehicles will be reducing this 90% of accidents due to human error, because in this vehicle there will be no human intervention in the driving process.