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Pros And Cons Of Self Driving Cars

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Technology is ever advancing in our society today. It continues to progress and further itself and it is benefiting us substantially. It is helping our epistemological understanding on the way the world operates and how to further our work and understanding of the world. It is benefiting us economically, making it faster to produce goods and creating new ways to make money. One of the fastest growing ways to earn a fortune is that of the automobile industry and the evolution of cars. In the early 1900’s, Henry Ford start the assembly line for the Model T, which mass produced cars. It evolves with interchangeable parts, so if something broke it was less expensive to repair. 100 years later, we now look to make cars able to drive on their own, self driving cars, but is it a good idea? There are many benefits and just as many negatives to having a self driving car, and this will be a brief synopsis on what some of these reasons are.
There are several ways that these self driving cars can be manufactured and operated in order to make them how they are. One method is to attach a copious amount of sensors to the vehicle so anytime it senses an object coming it'll avoid it. This method wouldn't be very practical, however, because oncoming traffic would run the car off the road. There would also be no way to keep the vehicle in the road because there would be nothing to keep the vehicle on the road. Or, possibly, the sensors could go bad if they get covered with elements anywhere in

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