Driverless Social Impact

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.

Driverless cars will have the biggest impact on public health of any advancement in automobile history, eliminating up to 90% of all traffic fatalities in the U.S.

The self driven cars will be able to drive up to 4 to 6 people in one car and that will help reduce traffic on the streets and traffic. It will be very beneficial because there will be less accidents, less pollution and less crowding on the streets. When self driven cars become a thing, the roads will have changed to adjust them for self driving cars. With the adjusted roads, self driven cars will be able to drive in any type of weather, any type of road/highway. Self driven cars will be able to promote car pooling more and although there might be some people that are not into the whole letting a car drive them to a certain place, it will hopefully promote other people to learn how to carpool to help overcrowding in the streets. Overcrowding has caused many disadvantages when it comes to driving in the streets, it causes accidents and it also makes others late for certain events such as work, school, sports, emergencies. With self driven cars it can help reduce overcrowding by having car pooling with coworkers or sports teams to avoid overcrowding and help to get to destination on

Self driving vehicles is a huge change in our society. We are taking the next step into the future and creating something bigger than ever. Driverless cars can be a good thing and a bad thing in todays society. We depend on so many things now, the older we get and the more time goes on, the lazier we get. Being Americans, we are putting our thoughts and ideas to the ultimate test to create something so dangerous but so efficient. We have thought of ideas that would make our lives "easier" and less stressful. In this paper I will describe how driverless cars work, the current problems and setbacks that we are having, and how this new technology is being put to use today.

Driverless cars are really expensive to buy.First,driverless cars will cost more money than a normal car,some people might not be able to afford it and it will be bad for Uber drivers and Taxi drivers,they won’t be able to earn enough money,and a normal car’s price will

Driverless cars are too dangerous for people to ride in. For example the technology used in the car could be a safety hazard. Also there is no point, if you truly do not want to drive then the driver should just call an uber or cab.

For people who live out of a city a driverless car would be the best thing cause you wouldn't be the one driving the car would do it for you. Some people would prefer to live further out of the city with driverless cars. It would make longer trips much better without taking stops for the driver to take a break.

As the technological revolution continues the line between possible and impossible blurs. 100 years ago, the tallest building in North America was 700 feet tall, but now we have buildings that tower close to 2,000 feet into the air (Swanson). With all these advancements in technology it was only nature for people to wonder about automating dangerous and hard jobs. With today’s current technology it would not be impossible to look out the window and see an autonomous car. Due to the average of 6 million car accidents worldwide, many people have inquired about the introduction of driverless cars (U.S. Department of Commerce). Many people would argue that it would benefit society but like anything there are always skeptics. Autonomous cars would benefit society because it would help the physically impaired, reduce automotive related deaths and reduce traffic. These causes will help to improve society.

If the people of the world have self driving trucks on the highway instead of humans, people will not have to worry whether they are going to get smashed by an 18-wheeler. Without a human on the road the truck is not able to make a mistake or drive incorrectly. If self driving trucks were to be released to the world, the supplies that are being transported will get to their destination a lot faster. If a human is not behind the wheel, there will be no reason to stop for diesel or food while the truck is on the highway. The self driving trucks will save companies much more money because they will just have to buy the technology for the truck and not have to pay workers. The company will also no longer have to pay for diesel money on the trip to the trucks destination. If self driving trucks are released there will be no need for a person behind the wheel. Truckers will now be able to spend time with their families and do not have to be away for long periods of time. Truckers can now get a job closer to where they live and be a father or a mother to their kids if they have any.

I think Driverless cars could be dangerous and expensive and not all people could afford it so there is no point of having them.

One of the self-driving cars approached a crosswalk, it did what it was supposed to do when it slowed to allow a pedestrian to cross and the car used the brakes. The person who was crossing the street was fine, but the automatic car has been hit from behind by a human-driven car. Those kind of cars is programmed to follow the letter of the law. However, it is not easy to get a driverless car in the streets with a lot of people that don’t pay attention. In the United States, innovative and futuristic cars are constantly developing, with the necessary modifications, to a new industrialization. Evolutions of cars never stops, and this is more evident when we speak about new technologies, such as those that are applied to electric vehicles. All of that being said, autonomous cars can make a significant and positive difference in the way that society functions.... driverless car will be an important futuristic change for people because it will provide benefits for traffic reduction, it will provide benefits for both individual drivers and it will provide benefits to positively change how America society functions.

People that are blind could then have the ability to drive wherever they so choose. In addition, people who use a wheelchair every day could simply roll up to the car and go. Driverless cars would drastically cut traffic tickets in half. You would also have more time for other things while your car is driving you such as working on homework, talking on the phone, drinking coffee, and the list goes on and on.

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.

Studies show that 90% of car accidents are attributed to human errors which would be eliminated by removing regular vehicles off the road and replacing them with driverless vehicles. Roads would no longer be plagued by drunk driving, sleepiness, inattention, road rage, etc which are the leading causes for car accidents. Each AV would be programmed with safety limitations that would prevent most common accidents that happen during every day commutes. Thus, there would be fewer fatalities and injuries seen in a year. On average in the United States 37,000 people die in car accidents each year and an additional 2.35 million are injured or disabled as well. In March 2013, the company Google logged more than 500,000 miles of autonomous driving on public roads with its driverless car without incurring a crash. This evidence shows that driverless cars provide much more security for passengers, therefore regular vehicles should be taken off of the roads

Another big problem with the driverless cars is that there will still be other cars on the road that have drivers behind the wheel and what will happen whenever a driver falls asleep or is under the influence of either