Cars : The Car Safety

Many people lose their lives or loved ones in accidents involving cars and other types vehicles like semi trucks, farm equipment, construction vehicles, and motorcycles. People are involved in car accidents due to reasons such as distracted driving, drunk driving, inability to drive, driving in an unsafe vehicle. Many of the accidents can be can be prevented. There are many precautions that can be taken to decrease the amount of people hurt in these accidents. Options range from enforcing harsher laws for vehicular accident or simply making the car itself safer, and making it mandatory that vehicles are safer. As well as new laws that could created. There are many small things that people can do to become a better driver and cause less accidents.

According to today's society, we can see a drastic change in technology today. Most Americans today tend to believe that self-driving cars are going to become very widespread over the next couple decades. The purpose of self-driving cars are to dramatically reduce traffic accidents; In other words, self-driving cars will be safer and more efficient than a normal car. For example, Psychologist Peter Hancock in his article titled, “Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers” asserts that over 90 percent of car crashes in the U.S. have been due to human error. ASIRT (Association for safe international road travel) has also calculated that, “Over 1.3 million people die every year from

Since the beginning of self-driving cars which first began in 1925 with the creation of the Houdina Radio Control; a car operated by two cars, a transmitter, and an antenna, to now - the futuristic dream of these autonomous cars have transformed into the reality of cars we see now. These cars are nothing short of the new technology advances that have occurred over the past decade. However, with these advances many question whether or not these cars are ready to be sold, due to the fatal accident that occurred May 2016 involving the autonomous Tesla and a white truck. Due to the Tesla not being able to detect the white tractor because of technological issues, the tesla failed to stop, and since the driver was not prepared to steer, it lead to the fatal collision eventually leading to the death of the tesla owner. With the increase of these cars on the road, from companies like BMW, Daimler, Ford, Apple, Uber, and Google, this poses a serious threat to not only the people operating this autonomous vehicle but also to the surrounding drivers. I believe that autonomous cars should not be put on the road, and that these cars are not beneficial to the population.

The majority of car crashes are a result of a human error. In comparison to the countless amount of bad behaviors a driver might exhibit behind a wheel such as tiredness and drunkenness, a computer is an ideal motorist due to the impossibility of distractions. Self-driving cars use complicated algorithms to determine the appropriate stopping distance and distance from another vehicle, dramatically decreasing the chance of an accident. The article also states, “Their [Google’s] cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash.” Autonomous cars inhibit the unlikelihood of distractions and resourceful technology to downturn the regularity of car

In the recent years, the United States government has been enforcing stricter mandates on auto manufacturers to create safer vehicles, and on construction companies to create safer roadways. Matthew Jensen wrote a dissertation for the Graduate School of Clemson University titled, A Methodology for the Analysis of In-vehicle Operating Data and Design of Intelligent Vehicle Systems for Improved Automotive Safety. In his abstract, Jensen evaluated the future of vehicle manufacturing and traffic-related incidents. Of course, every year more vehicles are manufactured, which in theory means the number of miles driven in vehicles increases. He points out how the World Health Organization (WHO) found that automobile crashes was the ninth

Notably, autonomous cars with smart technology use intelligent mapping and sensors in order to park the vehicle or avoid obstacles that come in the way. However, Google’s self-driving car accident statistics put light on the fact that even with all these technological advancements, it is highly possible that the autonomous car might crash.

In August 1961 , Self driving cars were invented by William Bertelsen . After the first accident that occured with self driving cars William Bertelsen stopped looking into self driving cars and forgot about it . Many Scientist have done lots of research and discovered that self driving cars Cameras aren’t able to multitask and read roads clearly , sometimes it can also be a problem with the Software also due to bugs and glitches . There are many reason Scientist believe that can cause self driving cars to crash , but all people can agree that self driving cars were never safe . Unquestionably , no matter how many people say and argue about self driving cars are safe , they will never be . Self driving cars cameras are not reliable on because

“Human error was to blame for 90 percent of the 1.2 million deaths that occur each year from car accidents around the world.” (Swinburne). Autonomous vehicles would not be distracted by phones, cannot drink and drive, will not be at risk of falling asleep, and therefore could dramatically reduce the number of accidents on the road that are caused by these implications. Error on the road is caused mainly by humans, and the elimination of this variable could prove to be extremely effective in making the roads safer. The issue with this technology, that could prove to be detrimental is the question of if the software can understand objects it detects. A computer does not understand that a ball in the road could indicate a child playing nearby. Thus, creating a new and dangerous dynamic for vehicles on the

In two thousand thirteen there were a total of thirty thousand and fifty seven fatal automobile accidents, out of those accidents there were thirty two thousand, seven hundred nineteen deaths. This number just represents the United States alone, the fatality rates worldwide are suspected to be just over one million. A total of about ten million Americans are involved in automobile accidents each year, both fatal and non-fatal. Human error accounts for ninety percent of all car accidents. The top three being distracted driving, drunk driving, and speeding. The economic cost of these accidents is enormous, in two thousand and five, there were about six million, four hundred twenty thousand car accidents costing more than

Each year in the United States, there are thousands of fatalities as a result of car accidents. Humans are imperfect beings, and many factors come into play when they get behind the wheel of a car. Whether it be from inattention, intoxication, or inexperience, drivers make fatal mistakes every day. With the development of self-driving vehicles, these human errors could be eliminated from the picture, saving countless lives and providing many additional incentives. Autonomous cars are quickly becoming a reality, and will provide numerous benefits to society by eventually replacing human-operated cars.

One of the major incentives for developing autonomous vehicles is the potential impact on vehicle safety. In 2009, there were 10.8 million motor vehicle accidents in the US, resulting in 35,900 deaths (Census 2012). It’s estimated that over 90% of all accidents are due to

Along with accidents not only comes a little headache or a broken bone, but injuries that stay with you forever such as whiplash and brain damage. Most brain damage incidents occur when you are involved in a side impact collision and the side of your head hits the glass (brain injury). Side impact airbags are just one of the many ways in which this type of life threatening injury can be avoided (whiplash). There is also whiplash, which hurls your head violently, and usually results in long term disability. Since whiplash is so hard to avoid, it can only be avoided by reducing the number of accidents on the streets. Also one of the most painful and most traumatizing injuries that we encounter in accidents are bone fractures, which occur in 65% of all accidents (Bush 11). So in turn by making these cars safer we can all avoid these painful, traumatizing, life-threatening injuries.

In the U. S., injuries that are related to motor vehicle accidents are responsible for the death of more kids and young adults than any additional one cause alone (The Community Guide, 2014). Additionally, automobile collision is the major reason for death due to injury for individuals of every age (The Community Guide, 2014). Roughly 33,000 individuals lost their lives from being in an automobile accident in 2010 (The Community Guide, 2014). This equals to 90 individuals every day. Also, a million other received injuries from motor vehicle accidents that were not deadly, according to the Community Guide (2014). Each year the expenses associated with motor vehicle accidents is over 99 billion dollars in lost of production and medical expenses (The Community Guide, 2014). The federal, state, and local government all play a role in the prevention of motor vehicle accidents.

Cars have revolutionised the mode of transport for humans and since their first invention in 1885, they have had an incredible revamp to them. Some of these factors include speed, design, and durability, but even so these ever-changing evolutionary changes came with a price, safety. With the modern era of car development the necessity of car safety has been one of the most demanding dynamics in car design as of the 20th century. To understand and improve the safety of cars, a vast knowledge of multiple physics concepts are required.

According to a statement issued by the European Commission, "If all cars were designed to provide crash protection equivalent to that of the best cars in their class, half of all fatal and disabling injuries could be avoided" ("Vehicle safety," 2009). If technology development is made a priority to offer highest casualty drop, there is a large future security of casualty reduction from crash prevention and active safety expertise and knowledge ("Vehicle Safety," 2009).