Driverless Cars Research Paper

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.

First driverless cars are much less likely to crash. In fact “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that between 93 percent and 95 percent of car accidents are caused by human error” (par. 5, Tribune). This study displays

To start off with, you still need to learn how to drive. As a little kid I have always wanted to drive. Now I’m at the age of driving and I need to learn. What if you had a driverless car and it malfunction, then you need an actual driver to take over and what if you do not know how to. It could be very dangerous for you and anybody else on the road. So having a driver in the car while driving would be very important

The author cites research cases to prove that over 95% of the motorists in U.S are against sharing roads with driverless trucks and trailers. Also, the author refuses the argument that autonomous vehicles will solve accidents caused by human error. This article has essential qualitative data on the negative impact of driverless cars. Pelini, Jake. " Unsafe at any Speed."

Driverless cars shouldn’t be allowed because it can cause injury or death.To start off with,according to Newsela article,”driverless car passengers are fear of crash”.To add on,driverless cars might not be able to stop when a car is coming at it,how will the driverless car know what to do when a car is coming at it,it can hurt the passenger(s).According to Newsela article,the author states,”What happens if a child runs into the car’s path and the only way to avoid hitting the child is to turn out of the way?It’s against the law, technically, to cross the double yellow line but it’s the right thing to do in this instance. And a human driver would do it, but a self-driving car might not because it is programmed to obey the traffic laws. Unlike humans, the self-driving car cannot use its judgment to ignore a law to save a life.”To explain,driverless cars are programmed to follow the driving laws but human drivers will save a human’s life and break a law,driverless cars won’t know how to save someone’s life unlike humans,driverless cars will cause more death than human controlled cars ,if a car is coming at your way,driverless car will probably just continue driving the way its on but a human driver will hit the brakes as fast as he/she can .Next,according to Newsela article,”recently, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to a crosswalk and did what it was supposed to do,It slowed down to allow someone on foot to cross the street. However, the human safety driver panicked and hit the brakes. No one was hurt, but Google’s car was hit from behind by another car”.To add on,driverless car’s camera and technology might end up breaking and your not a technology expert,you won’t know your surroundings,while you are a road trip or something,you will be lost and bad stuff will happen.

With that being said, driverless cars still have many bugs that need to be fixed before any release. If the types of vehicles end up on the road and one of the sensors aren’t “working properly,” then multiple car accidents would

On the road, big truck and fast cars are seen and are pretty cool. Some don't see a cool vehicle they see a nuisance to the environment. Self driving cars can eliminate pollutants in multiple ways. On the road cars are constantly stopping and going. Wheather at a stoplight or a traffic jam, cars waist the energy that they produce, causing harm to the environment. It is guessed that the difference between a human driving car compared to an automated car stopping at intersections would cut down on air pollution by 20-50% (Larabell). With normal cars, people are constantly crushing the gas pedal and stopping frequently. With driverless cars, the computer regulates the amount of stopping and going, along energy saving systems while stopped. With just the addition of self driving cars we could cut down tremendously on harmful gases. It would make it easier to make the world we live in greener. While saving emissions at intersections is helpful to the environment, so is reducing the overall number of cars on the road. The sheer number of cars on the road affects the environment we live in. It might not matter how efficient some cars are if there are still many more putting out harmful emissions.With the rise in driverless cars, regular cars will be pushed off the road, and allow for more ride sharing. It is estimated by the Earth Institute at Columbia University that

Our future is intense and frightening, but overall, unpredictable. We will have driverless cars soon in our world. They will overtake our roads and means of transportation. In my opinion, I think there is both good and bad with these driverless cars. There is both pros and cons dealing with this future. This future for cars will reduce drunk driving, reduce traffic jams, and reduce expense on the driver and our planet. The downside however, will come with putting millions out of business. Driverless cars are technology, and technology is not perfect, it sometimes crashes and does not always work the way we want it to. We do know that humanity is not perfect either. Humanity makes mistakes just as much as technology. So in this essay, I will talk about perspective one, perspective two, and perspective three, all talking about how driverless cars are good and bad for the future of our world.

Some people say that driverless cars are a bad thing but other would disagree with that and say that driverless cars are an amazing thing to have. To have a driverless car it would be safer for the environment because they run on

“Shawn” explains how driverless cars will lower the rate of deaths across the world. Driver-assist and self-driving innovations are changing our lives for the better. More than 35,000 people died in crashes on U.S. roadways in 2015 alone, and 2.4 million more were injured. Over 90 percent of those crashes were caused by human error. Self-driving technology holds the potential of preventing much of that carnage. They may hold the potential to prevent crashes but they are still able to be hacked and that could cause the same effect to happen because they aren't perfected. I believe we shouldn't use driverless cars because it is safer to have a human being controlling the car rather than a robot that could be tampered

In the United States, driver error is the primary factor to blame for automobile deaths. According to the National Safety Council, in 2015, over thirty-eight thousand people died in car crashes. On average, that is 194 people killed a day. It is unacceptable to lose so many lives each year to this tragedy. Unfortunately, society has accepted this as the price of convenient transportation. However, there is an alternative. In recent years, the feasibility of affordable driverless cars is becoming a reality. The pace of current progress points to a future where driverless cars will replace humans at the wheel.

With the technology of self driving cars traffic fatalities would be reduced by 90 percent. In 2013 32,719 people died in car crashes which means that using the number of fatalities in 2013 self driving cars could save 29,447 lives a year, That's nearly 300,000 fatalities prevented over a decade, and 1.5 million lives saved over a half-century.

There is a long list of positive things about driverless cars, but there is another side to that coin. What happens when there is a failure from the computer or other components of the car? Would this cause serious accidents and injuries or even the worst-case scenario death? According to the article Are We Ready for Driverless Cars,” Currently, the car’s sensors are unable to cope with poor weather conditions like heavy rain and snow-covered streets”. (Ibrahim Balkhy, 2013) Another unanswered question that has come up is who would be at fault if an accident were to occur and how would it be paid for. This would undoubtedly point the finger at the cars manufactures since there is no longer human error in the equation. Lawyers would have a heyday. I think driverless cars would be safe about 95% of the time just like flying an airplane or a jetliner but if an accident were to occur, it would most likely be devastating. Finally, there is the issue about privacy. Autonomous cars have GPS Systems in

Imagine a future with zero car accidents and taking a nap while going down the road. Imagine a future where there are no drivers, only passengers. And not just that, but imagine not worrying about having accidents or high insurance payments. With driverless vehicles, car accidents will drastically diminish and insurance rates will decrease, meaning they could have a better impact on the economy. Driverless vehicles will benefit society given that they will reduce accidents, can improve traffic flow by enhancing its efficiency, and protect the environment from harmful fuel emissions.

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.