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    How do Driverless Cars Drive Themselves? Manufacturers across the globe like Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Google, Apple, and Audi are all in a race to produce the most efficient way of travel. The most efficient seems to be driverless cars, before they were an unachievable dream, but now they are a reality. Although the most difficult concept of this all is to figure out how they work. Driverless cars are a new technology made from many older technologies combined, such as the LIDAR system, Computer

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    Driverless cars Will driverless cars change the world of transportation completely? Or will it have little to no impact? The impact that driverless cars will have on society is that they will reduce stress caused by getting from one place to another, also could change people’s emotional feeling towards their cars, and the number of car accidents. One impact that driverless cars may have on society is that they will reduce stress caused by getting from one place to another. According to the

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    I’m for driverless cars because they can determine which route to take to reach the destination listed. These can also help determine criminal activity made by their drivers. Most of these situations can also help people stay safe. Most people could also program personalities into the car. Most times a driverless car could have an AI computer chip in it, while others use the motion of the head. The AI could be programmed to help check the destination and routes to the location to determine if

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    leisure. According to the article PRO/CON: Will self-driving cars be good for America? By Robert Peterson and Eric Peters, Tribune News Service this may be part of our not-so-distant future. Recently many companies have been experimenting with driverless car technology and this could mean a whole new generation of driving. This new driverless car is the safe, clean, and refreshing gateway to the future of automobiles. First driverless cars are much less likely to crash. In fact “The National Highway

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    Driverless Cars Danger

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    Dangers of driverless vehicles Driverless cars have long been not a real thing except in science fiction, but within the next few years we could have them in Auto showrooms. New advancements are being made every day to make driverless cars a reality. but what is going to happen when the driverless car malfunctions or is faulty coming out of the factory? I'll tell you what happens the passenger in the driverless car is going to get seriously injured and killed and will most likely seriously injure

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    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

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    buy it, but some of the new technology is not truly needed. The driverless car and soylent are two examples of technology that are exceeding humanity. A man named Brian Lesko claims that a driverless car would be not be trustworthy. He stated “It scares the bejeebers out of me.” It is a no brainer that people would be skeptical about a driverless car. What happens when a driverless car causes a wreck with someone who is driving a car. Whos fault would it be? Ever since the first automobile was created

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    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

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    and cons of driverless cars, such as freeing up time spent driving, to making the roads safer. Concurrently: the article explores a reduction in the number of cars needed with the onset of ride sharing; more riders per car equals less cars required on the road. Furthermore: the article examines the pitfalls of onboard computer viruses and the possibility of a substantial shortfall in city revenues from loss of city transport riders and licensing fees due to a reduced number of cars on the road

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    Self-driving cars are cars that are specifically engineered to operate without a human operator. This means individuals can travel by car without having to control the car themselves as the car does the driving for them. Waymo is Google’s self-driving car project. Waymo stands for ‘A new way forward in mobility’. The development of Waymo cars commenced in 2009 Mountain View, California, since then Waymo has significantly progressed in creating an extremely safe and easy to use car for everyone.

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