Difference Between Driverless Car And Utilitarianism

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

There are many times, where you just have to use your human judgement, and hope you’re right. Mathew Wall states that, “Driving isn’t just about technology and engineering, is about human interactions and psychology.”(Wall). So just because the car can sense the surroundings around it, and can try to avoid wrecks, it can’t read human interactions. Recently one of Google’s self-driving cars had gotten into an accident. Avery says that, “The other vehicle came into the intersection at 30 miles per hour, running a red light and hitting the Google car's right side, t-boning the car. Google said its car was traveling at 22 miles per hour at the time of the collision.”(Hartmans). It’s unsure whether or not a human would’ve been able to avoid this accident, but this is showing us how even this technology isn’t going to protect us one hundred percent. There are many things that can play into an accident beside environmental factors that are going to need to take much more technology before driverless cars are adequate. Plus who’s to blame if two driverless cars get in a crash? It’s not the human’s fault because they’re not

Right now self-driving cars and trucks are hitting the road and will soon be available to the general market . Major companies like Google, Tesla, Uber and Delphi are leading in autonomous cars industry. In the past few years, these companies have made great strides improving this technology. Addressing the concerns for this technology must be concluded before it reaches the general public. Given the current state of automobiles that don’t need drivers the American consumer needs to be mindful that moral decisions this technology is handling puts them at risk due to the fact that this is emerging technology, laws are being made that will shape this technology, and who is choosing who lives and who dies.

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.

Most people believe that these self-driving cars are going to make our roads much safer than they are with human drivers. According to an article titled “Road Crash Statistics” by the Association for Safe International Road Travel, “nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 a day.” They also claim that road crashes is the ninth leading cause of death. Obviously automobiles are dangerous, but they are also very effective for transportation. According to Statista there were over 7 million cars sold to U.S. customers in 2014. Even though automobiles have caused so many deaths, most people really need them.

Similarly, the article “The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars” explains how driverless cars will be a safer alternative. It explains how humans are more prone to cause an accident than the driverless cars. The article describes the processing behind the vehicles and some problems they face while making them along with how this will delay their production. It also clarifies how the cars will be able to make the decisions that will keep people safe instead of putting them in harm’s way. Finally, the article describes the ethical issues and automation in cars today. According to Kirkpatrick, the cars are equipped with software that determine what reaction to make in different situations that would take a human more time to make, therefore, avoiding an accident. As stated in this article, there is still much work to be done before the cars are actually ready to sell to the public.

Utilitarian Ethics are measured by the ends resulting in greater total happiness versus the initial means to get there. Therefore the most optimal way that Utilitarianism works is through the greatest utility to all. If I were to keep an eye out for the vehicle in question, I would only be serving myself and the tow truck driver. The utility that would serve the greater

Many great technological feats have been accomplished in the past few years, one of the most notable would be the creation of self-driving cars. Along with the topic of what can be done with this technology, there is also the topic of what should be done with the technology from an ethical standpoint. Self-driving cars while not perfected are worth their innumerous benefits, despite the current limitations and drawbacks. Every year there are numerous incidents where the driver is responsible for a crash or even death. A self-driving car could be the very solution necessary to solving the abundance of accidents that occur daily across the nation. There are different levels of automation ranging on the amount of the drivers control of the vehicles. This technology is already being implemented in creative and helpful ways, and has been successfully tested.

I find it humorous that this week’s discussion on driverless vehicles is the same exact subject my wife and I were talking about on Sunday during our unscheduled trip back home from Kansas City, Missouri. Since this trip interfered with our other plans, we were discussing how pleasant it would be if our vehicle was one that was automated because we believed we had better things to do with our time. Actually, this idea was even more evident when we became stalled in a traffic jam due to a stalled vehicle on the road. Therefore, if I were a decision maker in regards to driverless vehicles, I would choose Egoism to be the most ethical pre-programmed crash decision software. (O.C. Ferrell, Fraedrich & L. Ferrell, 2013). The reason I chose Egoism

Basil Hume once said, “Each person matters; no human life is redundant.” Are self driving cars a stupendous or minute idea; as stated in the following passages, “PRO/CON: Is it time to hop in self-driving cars?” written by Tribune News Service; “Caution light is still on for Tesla's Autopilot technology,” written by Scientific American; “Man who is blind "drives" around town in Google's new driverless car,” written by Ashley Halsey III and Michael Laris, Washington Post. If Hume believes that human life is precious, but self-driving cars are risking fatal injuries to human life, what’s the answer? Legalizing self driving cars is a neurotic and harmful idea.

Currently one of the main topics of discussion in the AI community is self driving cars. Self driving cars would be much safer than manually operated cars and with a lot of work they could even be developed to form a network across the country they are in so that they can “talk” to each other. This would greatly reduce the amount of deaths resulting from cars. However self driving cars have also raised plenty of issues such as the fact they could put many professional drivers out of work. Furthermore there are many moral issues raised by automated cars, the trolley problem, a problem involving choosing between killing one or more persons as opposed to another group/person, is a very popular theory right now as self driving cars would have to

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.

Studies have been done and the results were alarming. A scenario was presented to approximately 2, 000 people and revealed that the most people believed automated vehicles should be programmed to be "utilitarian," attempting to save the most lives (in this case, the pedestrians) while forgoing as few as possible (the passengers). Unbelievably most of the survey takers also indicated that they would not want to purchase a vehicle that is programmed to be

Current literature discusses approximate public opinion, in different areas, of the current acceptance of self driving cars. However it does not discuss the change in such public opinion, due to statements that lead the reader one way or another before the