Michael Huff. Dr. Palacios. Rhetoric And Research. 24 April

According to an article by Investopedia called “How Google’s Self-Driving Car Will Change Everything,” Self-driving cars are expected to be safer because these cars won’t drive too fast, or take unnecessary risks-things people do all the time (Chase). Some other background information includes that over ninety percent of accidents are caused by driver error. There is every reason to believe that self-driving

There is another reason I feel self-driving cars are a very bad idea. These kind of cars are meant to come with automatics. If automatics are to ever go out, they could cause a whole new set of issues with the whole car. Automatic parking, braking, sensors for nearby obstacles could cause fatal

Self-driving cars are beneficial because they’re going to improve the safety and reduce traffic in our society. According to Urmson, Chris and Whittaker, “each year more than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents” (66) with this information we can we see there is a need for change. Vehicle crashes are one of the main reasons many people die in their first half of life than any other cause. There are many different benefits that these self-driving vehicles will offer that will cause change and prosperity in safe traveling and traffic flow. Driving will become safer with fewer mistakes made, reduce in traffic jams, and also these computer-operated automobiles will eliminate incidents involving alcohol and fatigue.

The primary concern with transportation is safety; hence the most obvious and largest benefit to the replacement of regular cars with self-driving cars is the decrease in traffic collisions. “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 is 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

Have you ever heard of a self driving car?Most likely you have.Since the self driving cars release in the 2000,the self driving car has been in the center of controversy.Many believe self driving cars could save lives by avoiding wrecks,while others believe that self driving cars may not be as great as they sound.Self driving cars are not a good idea because they need up to date highways,and there will be less safety gear,

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.

Chris Isidore senior writer at CNNMoney explains how “self driving cars are already really safe.” Written March of 2018 making this a very recent article Isidore adds how pedestrians are killed by cars every 90 minutes in the US until recently the drivers have been human. Elaine Herzberg was struck and killed by a self driving car Uber in Arizona, however he adds how self driving cars aren’t anymore dangerous to pedestrians than humans driving vehicles(Isidore). Many million mile road test have already been set for self driving cars and experts say the these cars have a very high potential rate of being safer than human drivers, which could one day save a huge number of lives when or if self driving cars become adopted around the world. The

With uprising technology, self-driving cars still need to have more research done antecedently they can be legalized on the U.S. roads. In the Newsela article by Robert Peterson, under the heading “Taking Technology Further ”, paragraph 5, stated, “As anyone who owns a computer knows, computers develop glitches. A computer glitch is annoying when it happens at your desk. It could be deadly when it happens on the highway.”. For this reason, self-driving cars can glitch just like a computer can, but the repercussion can be deadlier than if one's computer just has a virus and needs to be taken to a store to get repairs; lives cannot be repaired like a computer can. However, some can see how another may

Self-driving cars are already in the advanced stage and are being tested on roads right now in certain states, Michigan being one of them. They provide protection like no other car can because a computer is the driver, removing human risk.

Self-driving cars are no longer a thought of the future. Companies like Tesla, Mercedes, and BMW have already released, or are soon to release them. Driverless cars were first created in the 1980’s but they didn't use them in real traffic situations until 2013. But recently the driver of a tesla model S electric sedan was killed in an accident while the car was in self driving mode( Jamie L ). Driverless cars may be a neat invention to make driving easier but there are various flaws like hackers, that need to be addressed.

Self-driving cars are honestly not necessary, normal cars have operated just fine over the past century. Normal operating cars produce quite significant risks yet you never see any articles on them, these new and self doing automobiles are a waste of money and time, sure they have their pros but they just do not seem necessary. Self-Driving cars also do not seem all that dangerous, and claiming that a hacker could program a car to do malicious acts with it is just pure nonsense in this day in age; Any person can get behind a wheel and cause trouble and castorphy, it does not take a genius hacker. In all, these self-driving cars are still not necessary for our time period, and most people love the feeling of driving their favorite car, whether

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

Highway Administration, the average American driver drives almost 40 miles every day (FHA, 2011). Given how heavily vehicles are used today, especially in the United States, their replacement with autonomous vehicles could easily have far-reaching implications.

Self-driving cars also known as autonomous cars are being developed by top of the line auto and technological industries such as Google, Delphi, Audi, Tesla, Honda and BMW. Since 2012 cars tested by Google, Delphi and Audi had 11 accidents while driving over a million miles on public roads. While this may be a lot for these cars to have this is wrong because eight of the eleven car accidents were stopped or going less than 5 mph, and then proceeded to be hit by another vehicle. This is due to human error not one of these autonomous vehicles. Google has had zero collisions in 1.2 million miles driven by these vehicles since 2009. The human eye will always miss something that technology can see. The technology being put into

Technology has always found a way to push humanity forward. The next big leap is Artificial Intelligence, and robots taking over certain tasks from humans. More specifically, autonomous motor vehicles taking over for human drivers. Are self-driving cars the future, or a pipe dream? There are some concerns with the idea of self-driving cars, such as the loss of work for professional drivers or the complete loss of control within one’s own vehicle. However, the benefits we see in turning away from human controlled automobiles far outweigh the negatives. Loss of life, increasing medical and insurance costs, and long travel times can be decreased drastically by removing human error from driving motor vehicles.