Google Driverless Car

Imagine being able to get into your car and simply typing in your desired destination, and then reclining your seat to watch a movie or text a friend. During this time, the car is basically driving itself. Well, soon this may be possible this invention is called an autonomous car. An autonomous car, or driverless/ robotic car, is a car that is designed to drive without human interference. Essentially, drivers can program their destination into the car’s GPS system and then sit back and relax. Some of the world’s largest car companies are currently creating autonomous vehicles, such as Audi, Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes, and countless others. The driverless vehicle is now becoming a clearer and more present reality, and has been discussed and planned for decades. The autonomous vehicle offers significant benefits, but raises many questions and difficulties.

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

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

A driverless, or autonomous, car is a car that is able to operate and drive itself without the need of human interaction. Autonomous cars are able to navigate independently by using systems like GPS, radar and are able to sense the environment around the car by using sensors. Many major car companies, including Ford, General Motors, Audi, BMW and Volvo, have begun testing autonomous car systems. General Motors predict they could have a fully autonomous car on the road as soon as 2018[1]. There are many advantages to autonomous cars such as fewer traffic collisions, reduced congestion, relieves the occupants of navigation duties so they are free to do other things, and autonomous cars can be used by anyone even if they have a disability

“Ninety percent of our road accidents are related to bad driving behavior; driving recklessly and speeding under the influence of alcohol, changing lanes without signaling, driving on the hard shoulder and passing through red lights.” -Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Commander in chief of the Dubai Police (Olarte, 2011). The majority of car crashes are caused by human errors, and if this proposition is implemented, the number of fatalities due to car accidents per year will dramatically plummet. In 2012, a Google driverless car had driven over 300,000 miles, with only two accidents being reported, both of which had been a human’s fault (Emerson, 2012). Autonomous cars will have quicker reflexes than humans, make more reliable judgments and will not commit silly mistakes such as texting whilst driving. As a collateral for reducing accidents, this innovation could theoretically also save the government trillions of dollars each year.

The Washington post expresses that these types of cars are coming soon by stating that Google is not only increasing the testing of its completely automated cars, but will be publishing the results in order to gain the support of the masses. To speed things up the editors encourage states and companies help back and verify the claims made by the automated car manufacturers.

Self-driving cars were first thought up back in the 1970s, but the engineers who presented this more refined idea of a car that does not need a driver became the pioneers of this technological evolution and self-driven car laboratories appeared around the United States of America. Five years ago, Google announced that it would begin production of these modern and around two years ago, driverless cars began to make their way to the streets for testing. It was in 2012, just one year ago, that these cars started to pick up speed and became vastly popular. This year marks a grand milestone for the developers of the driverless car as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Currently research and testing occurs quite

As many have heard via uncertain whispers and hallway talk, Google has been inventing and manufacturing a “no hands” car for over six years. Now, in 2015, a prototype has been produced and tested by not only the Google Team but community volunteers. The car, approximately the size of a mini-cooper, seats two people and has been tested by hundreds on testing roads and even real roads and highways now. For some, the idea of being out of control is frightening, but to others, it is extra time to relax or get things done. Beyond convenience or even fears, the Google Driverless Car is an incredible way to reduce the millions of deaths each year due to drunk driving, falling asleep at the wheel, new drivers on the road, and texting and driving. People

Google is far from the only contender in the self-driving game. A recent report shows that Tesla Motors has an autonomous whip of their own. The Model S steered itself on a grueling 50-mile course that raced through freeways, winded through rural by-ways and handled city driving with ease. The success of the Model S was so great that reviews are calling it the clear winner among autonomous vehicles.

One would think that not having access to controls of a self-driving car is fairly frightening. The good folks at Google seem to think the opposite. Their proposition is that given the option to drive, humans will only interfere with the safety and interface of the car, thus causing a major risk to all passengers involved. Current laws in place have a requirement of service brakes to be installed in every self-driving car. Google at the moment is looking into exemptions from this law as it contradicts their plan.

This technology is no secret as it is being experimented by with more than just by Tesla. GM, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, and a few others are taking on this new technology and using it to their advantage. Google has also stepped their game up and is producing their own prototypes known as “Waymo” to combat the big boys who already have a strong foundation in the motor industry. In 2012, the Google self driving car drove over 300,000 miles on its own which then gave the company enough confidence to move it onto complex city streets for testing. Eventually, in 2015, the car made it to public streets for the first time and

Some jobs have been created, some lost (lot has been lost at the end of the day. Which has been very challenging to our society). A lot of people lost theory job to computer. Will this be the same for the google car? Upon addressing the mechanics of the driverless car as well as its benefits and potential issues, it is quite interesting to see how the world will actually become by the year 2030. Will people still need to get drivers licenses? Buy care insurance? Will mechanics lose their jobs

Google has announced that their self-driving cars will be on the road in two to five years. The company hopes that they will in America by 2020 but even if they are not people wonder if they will be safe and if we are ready to share the road with these vehicles. I believe that we will be ready for self-driving cars on the roads because we already have vehicles with system to prevent collisions such as early warnings and automatic lane changing from tesla motors. John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, he is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global

A report released by the tech giant on Tuesday indicated that the driverless cars may be threatened by humans more than vice versa. During one test, the Google car slowed and its test driver gently used the brakes as it moved closer to a sidewalk to avoid harming the pedestrian.

Google’s autonomous car had clocked up 1 million miles on public roads, and the researcher planned to do more road test in the future in order to expedite launch the Google’s car. (Protalinski, 2015) The technology of autonomous car is mature enough to use. In addition, the law for autonomous car has been already passed in serval states including Florida, Nevada, and Michigan. (Boeglin, 2015) It seems to be obviously that autonomous are coming into and bringing profound effect in our daily life. However, before greeting this revolutionary vehicle, there are several problems that need to be solved, such as ethical dilemma, liability and privacy problems. In this essay, which decision is moral in emergency, who will be responsible for an accident made by an autonomous car, and how much intimate information of owner can an autonomous car use will be discussed.