A New Piece Of Technology

Each generation, has given something to humanity, that the majority of us, thought was impossible, and no way is it going to happen. Some people believe that self-driving cars is good for the future and others think it will make us depend on technology too much. In all truth self-driving cars, has a lot of potential and unanswered questions: Google has been demonstrating its driverless technology over the past few years by bringing computerization into what has, for over a hundred years, been solely a human activity (Driving an automobile). It has done this by retrofitting Toyotas, Lexus’s and Nissan with cameras and sensors. “Major car manufactures already market and sell high-end vehicles with features like automated braking self-parking, lane- departure warning, and variable speed cruise control.”(Guerra) there is no doubts about self-driving cars have potential but the technology has serious questions to address. “With the news that driverless cars are coming to our roads, should we be discussing what will happen when the cars has to choose between the safety of its occupant and the safety of the road users.” (Wise) Will the car drive itself off a bridge to avoid an accident? Or run into the side walk to avoid hitting a pedestrian are all the serious questions brought up by people.

Vehicles have now been around more than a hundred years. However, the industry of cars is now on the verge of becoming totally revolutionized. Many automobile brands are currently working on developing and testing autonomous vehicles, better known as self-driving cars. The goal of this project is to completely eliminate human interactions with the vehicle. By this means, 10 million autonomous vehicles are expected to be on the road by 2020 and become mainstream by the year of 2030. However, many feel as if this project has no purpose. Cars were meant to be driven and people feel that autonomous vehicles will drastically upset the thriving U.S

In the article, “Will Self-Driving Cars be Good for America” (March 10, 2016), Robert Peterson argues that America is ready for self-driving cars to take over the streets. The author first reports the statistics of car related accidents in America, and how much the damages have cost in all; he then presents all the benefits of autnomous cars by discussing how it will benefit people of all ages by limiting expenses, and being able to reach a destination without the need for a license; and to conclude, he then finishes his article by alerting the audience that they need to get ready for what’s about to happen to the automotive industry in America. His purpose is to inform the reader in order to convince them that autonomous cars are the only

Are Americans ready for cars that can drive themselves?, will it be safe for “ai’s” on the road instead of normal human drivers?, and how will this be beneficial to traffic, crashes, and time? In the Newsela article, “pro/con: self-driving cars are just around the corner. Is it a good thing?”, By Tribune News Service, Self-driving cars remove many of the human mistakes that cause injuries and deaths. Self-driving cars can also help disabled and elderly people get from place to place on their own. The self-driving cars that are now being developed use many forms of technology to drive themselves. Radar, cameras and other devices are used to "see" the world around the car. Advanced computer systems drive the car from one destination to another without any help from humans. Self-driving cars offer such a wealth of advantages that it makes little difference whether Americans are ready. Americans need to get ready. Self-driving cars will soon be in their rearview mirrors.

Buzzing, ringing, clicking, swiping, and tapping are all sounds we make with technology, but how far will it go? Societies may be overruled by technology in the future, according to Aldous Huxley. He creates a dystopian society where everything is unpleasant and overruled by technology. Technology is so advanced that is controlling the society and taking the society as its prisoners. Aldous Huxley explored a new way of seeing technology in the 1930s through his novel Brave New World while introducing the world to the impact technology can have and how it is able to threaten a society.

In her article “To Hit the Road, Driverless Cars Must Be Safe, Not Perfect,” Nidhi Kalra argues that because humans are untrustworthy when it comes to safe driving, we should adapt to driverless cars. She provides three premises to support her argument. First, she presents the data of deaths and injuries that were caused by human mistakes. Second, she points out that even though driverless cars may never reach perfection, they would never make miscalculations or mistakes that human drivers make all the time, such as drunk driving, drowsy driving, or driving with distraction. Third, she argues that driverless cars offer benefits such as bettering mobility and efficiency, reducing congestion costs and land use. With these primary premises, Kalra persuades that driverless cars should hit the road one day to reduce amounts of accidents that are likely made by human drivers.

He includes organizations and people who work at a high level in different automobile industries to convey what each of their perspective is upon the idea of self-driving cars. Hence, he also used direct quotes from young Americans who don’t own a car to demonstrate having a car isn’t necessary, and demonstrates how these mobility services might impact automotive industries and smaller companies as well. Despite Boudette’s lack of adding to the text the negative perspective of autonomous vehicles, he does manage to open the minds of many citizens upon the idea of having self-driving cars in the near future is a positive thing for our growing society and how it may benefit the automobile industries as

“Our Driverless Future” is an article narrated in the third person point of view. In this article, Halpern expresses the many concerns with autonomous vehicles that will be created and used in the near future. She begins by stating that semiautonomous cars equipped with new technologies and safety features, such as “autopilot” mode, actually focus the driver’s attention to many areas but the road. It is already seen that due to these features, there is an increase in collisions and a lack of safety on the road. Therefore, Google and other companies proposed the idea of self-driving vehicles that eliminate split responsibility between the driver and the car. Although this mobility revolution might sound appealing to some people, especially young

“Every month it is becoming more clear that Google Cars are actually getting better at avoiding accidents” (Salkever). In other words, the issue is whether human drivers are more dangerous than driverless cars. The article “Google Cars Becoming Safer: Let the Robots Drive,” by Alex Salkever, says that driverless cars cut down on many road mishaps and will make driving safer. In like manner, the article “The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars,” by Keith Kirkpatrick, says the same thing, along with giving examples of how the driverless cars will outperform human drivers. While both articles argue that driverless cars will be safer, author Alex Salkever argues by using statistics, and author Keith Kirkpatrick

The Washington Post’s editorial board writes, in the article Driving into the Future, that automated cars are coming soon and that society needs to be convinced that driverless cars are safe and superior when compared to human controlled cars. This evaluation will describe how the writers make some excellent points and how they could have strengthened and added more credibility to their argument.

The article was about one of the most brought up topics recently in cars. Which is the evolution of cars in which they are programed to be able to operate themselves. Or As the article suggested driverless cars. The article fist started with the introduction asking questions about the drivers and how they can get distracted easily. For example one question asked “Might the driver choose to speed up as he approaches a yellow light at an intersection, in order to avoid stopping short when the red light comes on”. They start asking these questions so that the reading can understand what the average driver thinks during a drive. After the questions end they start to compare the driverless car to your standard driver. They state how every decision made on the road has a practical and moral component to them. Also that driverless cars don’t have this problem since they have

The event he uses “At some point, this technology will become so advanced that lawmakers will be forced to debate whether or not to outlaw manual driving, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk” letting his readers know at one point in life these cars are going to be used for everything police, fireman etc . His purpose was to inform and persuade his readers about why self-driving cars are the best and how they are safe for humans and for the

This opinion article addressing the cons of the rising technology of self-driving cars will be published in the LA Times. Readers of the LA Times are educated, affluent citizens who tend to have liberal ideologies.

Randal O'Toole is a Cato Institute senior fellow working on urban growth and transportation issue. His article explains how the auto fleet turns over app 18 years, which leaves room for the advent of driverless cars to become dominant within a decade and universal after that. O’Toole notes government will be either a help or hindrance, He goes on to infer the models will begin to operate on private lands and then be introduced onto public roads via shipping companies. His conjecture concludes that no matter how safe or nonpolluting the car is there will still be opposition to the driverless vehicle, as with and new technology. O’Toole summarizes that the change to driverless vehicles is inevitable: just as past advances in transportation.

In recent discussions of growing technology, a controversial issue has been whether we are ready for the advancements of driverless vehicles. On the one hand, some argue that these advancements have already proven that we are ready. On the other hand, however, others argue that we need to have more experience with the technology before we can be ready. In sum, then, the issue is are we ready or not for driver-less cars. While others think that driverless vehicles can’t be trusted yet without a commission to help lawmakers with regulating the vehicles and government officials that know more about this technology to better watch over it, I believe that we are ready for this new evolving automobile because driverless vehicles already has too much potential beginning with its self-automated breaking system and warnings.