The Pros And Cons Of Driverless Car Technology

Driverless cars are the technology of the future. There is no longer a need to drive using your hands, just type in your destination in the GPS, and the car gets you there. These cars are still being tested, but they are expected to get on the roads soon. There are some drawbacks that have held up the process to let these cars on the roads, but the companies will fix these problems. Driverless cars have a lower crash rate than humans, they are safe, and don’t make mistakes like people do on the road.

Twenty-first century technology secretly move in every corner of our life, computer, television, even our fridge. Technology not only become the things that can make our life easier but also become things that we needed. Over the last two years, driverless car become a hot topic. Is it safe? Should we really commit our life to computer’s care? Is the technology we have nowadays able to support driverless car?

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.

As technology in automobiles continues to improve, the debate over driverless cars has become more frequent. A self-driving car is able to move and navigate on its own using sensors and programming technology without human control. Many people believe the development of driverless cars would be beneficial because they could reduce the risk of hitting another car. The sensors and navigation would be able to avoid accidents, while drivers usually get distracted and would be able to use their time leisurely in the car. A self-driving car may allow people to drive when unable to in the past, such as children and disabled persons, and can be more cost-effective due to cheaper insurance. However, self-driving cars could be extremely expensive and can easily malfunction and therefore not always reliable, while also decreasing the safety of pedestrians and children who may attempt to use the car without permission. With new technology and distractions, driver’s minds can easily wander and become preoccupied. Technology can easily malfunction, and something as small as my phone or a light bulb will glitch frequently. I often see cars stranded on the side of the road because the engine went out or broke down; imagine how catastrophic an accident could be if a sensor in the car went out. Driverless cars are not beneficial to society because while there are favorable aspects of a self-driving car, one can malfunction and add new risks to the road, as well as potentially hurting the

The use of IoT in the development of autonomous vehicles has led to the general reduction of fatalities (Sheng et.al, 2013). The reduction of fatalities is from the following aspects of driverless cars which are improved on by the use of IoT in the vehicle technology.

This opinion article addressing the cons of the rising technology of self-driving cars will be published in the LA Times. Readers of the LA Times are educated, affluent citizens who tend to have liberal ideologies.

Despite remaining issues with technology, driverless cars should be allowed on the city streets. A car that drives itself sounds insane, but it could help thousands of people every day. Say you know someone who can’t get to places easily and is disabled, then they could use the driverless car to get to wherever they like. The driverless car is electric, which means the car is environmentally friendly and could decrease the amount of pollution. That isn’t the only thing that driverless car can provide, it is safer than most people on the road and you are most likely not to be involved in an accident. The driverless car can benefit a lot of people in need.

Transportation started off with the appearance of the wheel more than 3,000 years ago . The development of the industrial steam engine during the industrial revolution was a show stopper. Mankind has been behind the wheel ever since. In 1903, the first road trip was completed by H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker.They rumbled across the west of the United States until finally reaching New York. These man traveled more than 36 hours ,and consequently, spent about 8, 000 dollars in repairs, food, and hotels along the way. Both men inspired millions with their journey. As time went by,citizens learned to be responsible while driving. Enough people have no problem driving; nevertheless, leaving a unreliable “assistant” in charge of the lives of loved ones. All states should prohibit driverless cars due to their extravagant cost, total unreliability, and the future changes to laws that will potentially press more stress down on drivers.

There has been much controversy over the claim that driverless cars are the future of travel. Many people are uncertain of the new advances in the technology. This is why the idea that we could possibly one day be riding in self-driving with the assurance that everything is under control is amazing (Weber.) In recent years developments have been underway to make driverless a reality, but there are still many obstacles to try and overcome. The invention of anti-lock brakes to cruise control has greatly relieved the stress of driving for many travelers ("How a Driverless Car Will Benefit You.”) The progress of technology in modern times has greatly aided drivers. The stability of automobiles has come a long way since the days of Guido da Vigevano

What about sending a car out to go get pizza or maybe having a car drop passenger at the door of wherever they want to go and then picking them up when called upon? How would human driven and autonomous cars mix (Weber)? The questions posed above are only a beginning to the questions that will be asked when these car hit the market. What people might say no to know they might just say yes in twenty years. Not just the transportation might change, but also social

Autonomous cars are likely to be normal daily life transportation system by 2015, there care will change everything we know about driving and moving around, get ready the future is here. AVs may not be compatible with our infrastructure; the cities and the whole society needs transformation to adopt this fascinating technology. Insurance companies are watching this with keen eye, they know this is the future and they want to go with it but liabilities, where should they but on this time? Who will be responsible for fully autonomous car crashes because it will obviously not be the passenger and how they can adopt with the system of driverless cars?

Throughout the history of life-style altering inventions, the automobile is the fundamental transportation unit that our modern society operates on. This one invention has not changed over the the one hundred years that the car has been in use by society; the same basic principle is still there, you drive the car. Maybe with this it is the time to switch our society from manual driving automobiles into autonomous vehicles, what could go wrong? You see, despite the obvious benefits, there are a lot of difficulties that lurk with this technology. One such difficulty includes the limited ability of communication between the computer and the actual human as stated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cummings). If the communication between these two systems fail, the safety of the driver and others are in jeopardy, and can result in vehicle crash.

Although I believe that the positives about driverless cars outweigh the negatives they are significant factors to take into consideration. For one, the cost of the cars is an issue. Although with time they will become cheaper, currently they add up to more than $100,000 as they require lots of engineering, software, sensors and power requirements. This would mean that for a long time they would not be available to the majority of people. Furthermore, the introduction of driverless cars would mean that truck and taxi drivers would lose their jobs. However, many people argue that although many jobs will be eliminated, more jobs will be created. Moreover, as the Guardian highlighted, hackers may become very interested in hacking the cars system to either cause crashes or gain personal information about the owner. This would mean that very high security measures must be used so that this could be avoided. A

   Driverless cars can look for parking spaces on their own when they arrive, rather than stopping nearby. This can effectively ease the shopping malls, hotels, stations and other crowded places parking pressure.

There are various questions that have arisen regarding the introduction of driverless vehicles, its benefits and disadvantages. With the huge advancement in technology in the present century, several automakers have announced the emergence of driverless vehicles that boost of the functionality without any need of drivers (Chopra). The driverless vehicles are fully autonomous cars that can not only transform the lives of people and make it convenient for them to visit places but will also consider the safety and driver support technologies with ease and efficiency. Various researches were done, which showed that the driverless car programs could not only bring more