Artificial Intelligence is a field that is rapidly being researched, and is one of the largest advancements in the tech field that we are currently experiencing. With any new advancement society is obligated to discuss the ethical implications of it and how the changes it brings to our society will affect us. This is especially important with artificial intelligence, which has the potential for abuse which can quickly get out of hand if not properly managed. Artificial Intelligence is a large and growing field within technology with many sub fields one of which is self driving cars. The ethical implications of self driving cars are particularly important because of their ability to impact everyone’s day to day life regardless of if they have personally …show more content…
In a recent study “The general population is receptive to the idea of self driving cars. On a scale of one to five with one being a very negative view and 5 being very positive view, the average view of self driving cars was 3.58, slightly better than an average viewpoint.” (Konig 46) This study showcases how the general population is becoming more receptive to the idea of artificial intelligence and self driving cars having a place in their lives. Self driving cars have the ability to improve society’s quality of life on three fronts: health, finance, and social. Self driving cars have the potential to drastically reduce the number of deaths and injuries that are results of car crashes and thus potentially improve the health of millions of Americans. Car crashes are one of the leading causes of death in the US with “37461 deaths in the US in 2016 and 2.4 million injuries” (Waymo 6). Additionally “94 percent of US crashes involve human error” (Waymo 6) which shows how much self driving cars could benefit society. Financially self driving cars also have the ability to save the US millions of dollars every year. As previously noted, self driving cars should drastically reduce the number of
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.
Self-driving cars are now hitting a few roadways in America, and are showing people just a small glimpse into what could be the future of automobiles. Although Google’s self-driving cars are getting a lot of attention now, the idea of a self-driving car has been around for quite a while actually. These cars have been tested to their limits, but the American people have yet to adopt the technology into their everyday lives. A brief description of their history, how they work, and finally answer the question, will self-driving cars ever be adopted widely by the American public?
Companies like Google, Tesla and Nissan, among others, have announced over the past few years that their companies are trying to develop self-driving or autonomous cars [Ref. 1 and 2]. Self-driving cars can provide many benefits to the average consumer. Studies have shown that because computers can react and process information many times faster than a human being, crashes on streets and roads can be decreased with quick and consistent evasion maneuvers by the autonomous car. They can also help maximize fuel economy by calculating the most direct and fastest routes. When the driving of an autonomous car demonstrates that the computer can safely and reliably transport the passengers to their destination, this frees up the passengers to do other things that they would not normally be able to do if they were driving the car manually. For this reason, self-driving cars can help maximize productivity of their passengers.
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.
One of the Google self-driving cars experienced an accident on September 23 of 2016. The car drove through a green light but stopped in the middle of the intersection. The car sensed another car going to run a red light and applied its brakes. The car kicked into manual mode, but the passenger’s reaction took too much time. The speeding car rammed into the autonomous car and caused an accident. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage. (Hartmans 2)
Self driving cars would make life easier, wouldn’t they? Car companies are now working on and developing them to create safer roads and ultimately make life easier for everyone. However, there are a number of concerns that need to be addressed in order for this to happen, if it even does. The idea of having driverless cars on the roads, comes with safety problems such as, difficulties with generating maps, and it could also cost too much money to work. Driverless cars wouldn’t be a better alternative to normal human driven cars because their advantages don’t make up for their disadvantages.
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
Not long ago, when people talking about self-driving cars, most of them would feel that is far away from us. But today, we can see from news that many IT companies are already created their own self-driving technologies. Self-driving cars can use a variety of technologies, like GPS, radar, computer version, to avoid obstacle and explore surrounding environments. In order to drive safely, self-driving technologies include drifting warning, blind-spot detectors, enhanced cruise control and self-parking. The first self-driving technologies can be traced from 1980s, with Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. At present, companies which are developing self-driving cars include Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, Volvo, Ford, Tesla, Baidu. Why do so many top companies want to develop self-driving
Self-driving cars are the wave of the future. There is much debate regarding the impact a self-driving car will have on our society and economy. Some experts believe fully autonomous vehicles will be on the road in the next 5-10 years (Anderson). This means a vehicle will be able to drive on the road without a driver or any passengers. Like any groundbreaking technology, there is a fear of the unforeseen problems. Therefore, there will need to be extensive testing before anyone can feel safe with a vehicle of this style on the road. It will also take time for this type of technology to become financially accessible to the masses, but again alike any technology with time it should be possible. Once the safety concern has been fully addressed
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
With self-driving cars on the horizon for the average consumer, an ethical dilemma is made apparent. Who is to blame in the advent of an accident involving a car that drives itself? There are many situations in which the car could make a “wrong” judgement call based off of its internal decision models. The problem occurs when the decision the car makes differs from what the average person would consider a good moral choice. A current issue relates to who is responsible for an assisted driving accident, when the car attempts to save the driver or a pedestrian, and the other issue involves self-driving cars and the responsibility of computer model decisions.
The topic is yet to decided (Addressing the ethical problem stopping the auto-driving car from marketization) Safe driving has always been a social problem. People always have the chance to encounter accidents in their lives. For those worried about these problems, they put forward the concept of driving a car computer. In the past ten years, people have been striving to achieve this goal.
Hello, today we will be talking about prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, is a family of disorders in the ability to identify or learn faces, including one’s own face. With a prevalence rate as high as 2% and no known formal treatments, prosopagnosia can be socially frustrating. People with this deficit still have normal visual abilities such as basic object recognition, but there is some sort of impairment involving the higher, more complex visual processing areas. In the picture on the right, someone with prosopagnosia would see the individual vegetables and not be able to integrate them to form a holistic face.
Who would of ever thought a self-driving car would become a reality, but in this day and time it is. The world we live in is pushing further and further toward technology, which in some ways it is helpful but others I feel can cause issues that should never be the cause. In this situation, it is a self-driving car. The thought of a car driving without a human having any control, scares the living daylights out of me, doesn’t seem safe at all, and in my opinion quite honestly should not be able to be legal for multiple reasons.
Advances in technology and infrastructure make artificial intelligence put into practical applications. At the moment, the most striking of the new technology is the auto-driving car. Does the wide spread of such products bring unexpected effects? The answer is yes, at least the two will appear first: self-driving cars will be rejected, buy these cars will become a "hateful appearance. " Before that, engineers can make vehicles safer, more efficient, and prove to regulators that they are safe to go.