Sickness In Driverless Vehicles

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Disadvantages
1. Carsickness
Travel sickness is becoming a serious problem in driverless vehicles. According to one study, the number of people suffering from nausea, dizziness and vomiting symptoms increased by 30 percent when they were travelling in self-driving vehicles. Tovey (2015) states that the reason why people had these feelings is because motion sickness usually occurs when the human brain receives different indications from the eyes and the balance system; in addition, just sitting in the self-driving car without controlling the direction of movement would also cause the symptoms because the unanticipated movement is likely to raise the chance of travel sickness.
2. Driving experience
Driving is the significant and joyful exploration to life. Self-driving with a particular destination to go means no human participation in driving process, which could disconnect the interaction between the human body and the motorized force, deprive people of the joy of exploration and impair the sense of operations including steering wheel or the gearstick. As a result, the driving pleasure would evaporate considerably (Barton, 2014). Most importantly, if the drivers are conditioned to the self-driving systems, the society would be facing as concerns mount that the self-driving systems …show more content…

When severe snowstorm or heavy rain comes, the sensors or other devices of the self-driving cars would be negatively affected. It leaves the cars unable to recognize the traffic signs or pedestrians and therefore unable to function correctly. In addition, Mukisa and Rashid (2014) mention that, due to the inadequacy of security mechanisms, the self-driving vehicles are under threat of cyber-attack. Security vulnerabilities of software systems embedded in sensors could probably enable hackers to take control of the vehicle remotely for criminal

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