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Imagine laying in bed watching your favorite movie, playing your favorite video game, or listening to your favorite song. Now, imagine that on your way to work or to the store. Self driving cars could make this a possibility. We have been tinkering with ideas for autonomous vehicles for almost a century and a few companies have even been successful in designing a fully functioning self driving car. Roads full of these video game-esque cars controlled by artificial intelligence or other means of autonomy may not be as distant in the future as one might think. This, being a drastic change in the way we travel, could cause many issues. Due to these potential issues, it is in our best interest to raise questions before we implement these technologies. One possible question is: have we thought out any ramifications this might cause, and if so, do we have an approach to fix them?

Have you ever been extremely late for school or your occupations and wish you could just get ready in the car? Automotive cars are planned to come out sometime in the near future of the year 2020. I know this new technological advancement seems scary, but with the ways it will benefit us remarkable. Self-driving cars would impact our advanced society in many positive ways because the streets would become less congested, the innovations for cars have worked before, and the amount of deaths would be lessened.

“Our Driverless Future” is an article narrated in the third person point of view. In this article, Halpern expresses the many concerns with autonomous vehicles that will be created and used in the near future. She begins by stating that semiautonomous cars equipped with new technologies and safety features, such as “autopilot” mode, actually focus the driver’s attention to many areas but the road. It is already seen that due to these features, there is an increase in collisions and a lack of safety on the road. Therefore, Google and other companies proposed the idea of self-driving vehicles that eliminate split responsibility between the driver and the car. Although this mobility revolution might sound appealing to some people, especially young

Think about getting into your car to go on vacation. You have everything pacted, hop in, and get ready to watch a movie. This is starting to become a reality in the coming years. More and more industries are starting to dump millions of dollars into invoicing a safe, self driving vehicle. However, is this really a positive step with the innovation of transportation.Transportation with technology is evolving with us everyday. Self Driving cars are one of the new forms of technology. Driverless cars are beginning to enter the roadway currently. National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations Joan Claybrook, believes that it will take between 10-30 years before driverless cars are good enough to be fully administered on the roadway (Greenhouse).

According to today's society, we can see a drastic change in technology today. Most Americans today tend to believe that self-driving cars are going to become very widespread over the next couple decades. The purpose of self-driving cars are to dramatically reduce traffic accidents; In other words, self-driving cars will be safer and more efficient than a normal car. For example, Psychologist Peter Hancock in his article titled, “Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers” asserts that over 90 percent of car crashes in the U.S. have been due to human error. ASIRT (Association for safe international road travel) has also calculated that, “Over 1.3 million people die every year from

Innovation will be the solution to many problems including who has the issue, the number of organizations who have it, and what is the value to them.

Randal O'Toole is a Cato Institute senior fellow working on urban growth and transportation issue. His article explains how the auto fleet turns over app 18 years, which leaves room for the advent of driverless cars to become dominant within a decade and universal after that. O’Toole notes government will be either a help or hindrance, He goes on to infer the models will begin to operate on private lands and then be introduced onto public roads via shipping companies. His conjecture concludes that no matter how safe or nonpolluting the car is there will still be opposition to the driverless vehicle, as with and new technology. O’Toole summarizes that the change to driverless vehicles is inevitable: just as past advances in transportation.

The article taken from CQR is titled “Future of Cars: CQR”, and focuses on development, legality, public opinion, cost and environmental benefits of driverless cars stating simply the facts and statistics of the matter. Written by David Hosansky, a writer twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. However, he is by no means an authoritative source on automobiles, as his forte is environmental issues. This does not discredit his research; it enhances the debate by bringing in a unique idea about the benefits of autonomy.

This is the era of technology. We are surrounded by machines in every simple task of life. When I was young, I always wondered if I would ever be able to drive like older people do. A few years ago when I heard about Cars that don’t require a driver, I was so surprised and sad because I had already got my learner’s permit by that time and knew how to drive. I had always wanted to learn more about that topic but since they are not popular like other gas automobiles, not many people know about them. Last year, when I decided to major in IT, One of the first question I asked my IT professor was “What can you tell us about self-driving vehicles?” and he replied by saying, “what news tells us.” That made me start researching on that topic. For my Introduction to IT class, I planned to write my research paper on self-driving Class. However, before I could submit my topic request, someone else had already decided to write about self-driving cars. That increased my interest in wanting to know more about

Automobiles are often criticized for being gas-guzzling machines that are depleting our ozone and putting our world at risk. Their dependency on fossil fuels is rightly under fire for social, economic, political, and environmental reasons; none of which bring a positive connotation to the topic of automobiles. A less criticized topic, but arguably a more prominent issue, is our dependency on them. There are infrastructure ‘improvements’ constantly being made within cities to accommodate the personal automobile. Our willingness to use cars with no recognition of the effects that they have on our surroundings speaks to the culture and time we live in. Modern cities were birthed from the automobile but nurtured by its inhabitants.

The article “Autonomous Cars: The tension between occupant experience and intersection capacity”, by Le Vine, et al. is designed to help get a better understanding of the questions that are raised about how effective the experience riding in an autopilot car can be for daily efficiency. It also examines the effects that these cars have on road networks for traffic managers when designing how roads are created. The majority of the article compares and contrast high speed trains and autonomous cars through acceleration and comfort of the ride.

This research aims at bridging important gaps in the way one conceptualizes the evolution of innovations in the informal sector, by means of formally untrained minds, that have the potential for Grass Root Innovations (GRIs). It also addresses important gaps in meeting needs of disadvantaged communities, which formal systems like Science and Technology (S&T) have not been able to address so far, in a manner that is cost-effective and affordable. While GRIs cannot provide solutions to all problems, they can indeed provide solutions for some of them. The conceptual basis, or the heuristics, underlying these innovations, can sometimes extend the frontiers of science, or improve efficiency in larger mainstream technological systems, in addition to meeting the local needs. But, incentives for developing technologies, which will have limited diffusion because of socio-ecological conditions, are difficult to institutionalize. The result being that such niches remain unserved. However, if difficult regions, with poor market and bureaucratic infrastructure, have to remain outside developmental impulses, then social harmony is unlikely to be maintained. In this case, it would be difficult to attain sustainability.

People have been arguing about the self driving cars lately, some people are fore it while others think differently. “Now, the driverless car is another society-shifting invention that may become part of everyday life in the not-so-distant future.” (Haskins) This is telling the people that self driving cars are going to be the new big thing, and that it's going to be usual for people to “drive them”. “First, the technology used in those cars creates serious safety problems. Huge improvements must be made before they can safely handle streets.” (Flora) People have many reasons to be against self driving cars. People say the navigation system needs to be constantly updated. Then some say that it's not the car it's

Imagine yourself appreciating the view of your city while your car gets you to your destination. In recent years’ companies like Mercedes, BMW and Google are trying to create a driverless car. But it is obvious that this evolution of the automotive industry will give us many options in the future, simply because we ride in the car and relax until we reach our destination. But not everything would be easy if there are driverless cars there are also disadvantages. Tim Adams need to consider these concerns: the crashes, more contamination and cost.

Majority of the world’s population can’t even stand a world without cars; I boldly support that t; development of automobiles has really influenced the world positively. Whether some people love or hate vehicles, a fact that we have to admit is that vehicles play a major role in our lives and it has influenced the world positively. However, there are negative effects of motor vehicles that I ca refute, but generally the positive impacts outweigh the negative effects of automobiles in the current world (Erjavec, 2013). Development of vehicles has entirely changed our perception about the world and shaped the manner in which we imagine things, the world is like a global village to all of us and all the credit goes to the early inventors and those who came with the idea of motor vehicle development. Development of vehicles has changed some of the human cultures and behaviors, we even have books, articles and documentaries about the automobile inventions and all these are evidence of on how we cherish vehicles because they have truly helped us and they are still helping us. Songs, poems and several movies have been acted about the development of vehicles, the fast and furious episodes of movies uses cars to race, and if we analyze the movie well we realize they tend to showcase different types of cars, engine capacity and their speed.