Should Driverless Cars Be Allowed

SUMMARY: Business reporter, Drew Harwell in the article, We Drove Cars That Can Drive Themselves — and Cost Only $20,000, published on April 5th, 2016 addresses the issue of driverless cars in the 21st century and explains the reasons why we should not rely on these relatively new cars. Harwell supports his claim first by framing his argument, through the use of evidence. He explains in detail what these cars actually are, for example, he cites an experiment he conducted driving these types of cars and provided information regarding price, miles per gallon, technology, and efficiency of each of the cars tested. Second by, appealing to the reader’s emotions.

Nicholas Carr introduces his opinion of automation through an example of the overused system of autopilots during an airline flight and questions our growing dependence to technology that is gradually beginning to complete task that we can do for ourselves. Carr moves on to reminisces back to his high school driving lessons, his experiences from driving automatic stick shift to manual stick shift and expresses his joy of being able to be in control of his own vehicle. He then focuses on the self – driving Google car that can effortlessly tours around the California and Nevada area, reporting that an accident did occur but was a manual drivers fault. Over the course of the chapter, he presents us with different scenarios of how technology plays

One ethical issue of driverless cars the choice of action when facing an inevitable accident with another party. In this situation, the car has to decide which party to harm. This means the people developing the car software may face the issue of deciding different values or worth on human lives or leaving it to the machine learning software to decide itself. Another issue is whether driverless cars should fully prevent human interaction or still allow humans to control the car if and when they see fit. This may raise the question of whether human error or software error was the cause of any accidents.

This technology would undoubtedly allow the drivers of the future much more freedom, right? While autonomous cars may seem a viable solution, they offer many unintended drawbacks. For example, although driverless cars may remove the human error of driving, they do not provide adequate decision making. Driverless cars present a moral dilemma upon closer inspection (Lin).

Millions and millions of jobs will be lost due to self driving vehicles pizza places businesses they will all use driverless vehicles they save more money in the long run. People losing jobs is not good because then I lose money and if they lose money how are they going to serve the mouse food in our house. This is proving my claim because self driving cars aren’t good. This is proving my claim because self driving cars aren’t good. James Hoffa states in an article “experienced drivers play huge role in safety of heavy vehicles and that shouldn’t change”.

Did you know that tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs when self-driving cars hit the road? Did you know that you can buy a house for the same price as a driverless car? Self-driving cars are about to take over the highways, but these vehicles are on a course destined to crash. Not only are these cars expensive to purchase, but they will leave many without jobs and these cars will add to our already lazy do-it-for-me society. I believe that self-driving cars have no business on the road.

It is expensive to put all this into action, that includes passing laws to legalize this. It might not be safe in harsh weather conditions due to the signals cars would need to send out. Also, drivers could begin to rely on technology more than they should and it could cause them to forget how to operate basic electronics including normal cars. And there are several hundred tests cars have to undergo. There are many benefits from driving driverless cars too, there could be fewer traffic stops and fewer traffic jams.

Communications of the ACM, 58(8), 19-20. This article talks about the moral challenge between driverless cars and drivable cars. The article introduces how driverless cars can out preform normal cars because, the driverless car will have greater perceptive abilities, better reaction times, and will not suffer from distractions (from eating or texting, drowsiness, or physical emergencies such as a driver having a heart attack or a stroke). Also the article states that 90% of crashes are due to human

Self-driving cars will not only revolutionize driving, it will change the way humans currently live their lives. Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman in their book, Driverless, state that “In the coming decade, self-driving cars will hit the streets, rearranging established industries and reshaping cities, giving us new choices in where we live and how we work and play.” (Mrs. Heyne – this is in the summary of the book, what should I put here as a page number?) Self-driving cars aren’t science fiction anymore, they are real, and they will be purchased by consumers in the millions within the coming decades. Autonomous cars are proven to be safer, and much smarter than manually-driven cars.

The companies today that are attempting to make self driving cars have had a huge success and this is a good thing because they have found that if the road is occupied only by self driving cars then it would be safer in a number of ways. One reason stated in the article “ The 3 biggest ways self- driving cars will improve our lives,” by Cadie Thompson, is that “ if 90% of cars were autonomous, the number of accidents would fall from 6 million a year to 1.3 million a year.” This would be a drastic change, and would help save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Also in the article titled “3 reasons you should embrace self driving cars,” by Drew Hendricks, it says that “ there’s no emotion involved, and certainly no distractions.” This means that all distractions

With such a large group of people that may not be able to drive on their own, self driving cars would give a safer option to older people being more independent. Supporting Evidence #3 Self driving cars technology will also lower the danger risk in driving. According to the Business insider, self driving cars will have senses so close to human qualities that they will be able to adapt to the environment around them in a way that makes them safer than regular cars. This technology will have a huge impact on keeping roadways safe in the future.

While self-driving vehicles will provide a new form of technology in the future, they will affect our society by being an emerging technology that is innovative, dangerous, and unreliable. Self-driving cars are a new form of emerging technology. An article that was recently published discussed the positive and negative effects of self-driving buses which led to research on self-driving cars. The emerging technology of driverless vehicles was introduced on public roadways. Crelin stated that “Long predicted to be an impending and emerging technology, driverless vehicles developed slowly over the course of the twentieth century but emerged fully into public view in the first decades of the twenty-first” (1).

“The event there are accidents and people are injured or killed, it remains to be seen if the driverless car manufacturers will be eaten alive by the personal injury bar, technology-averse juries, and Luddite legislators and regulators before the industry even gets off the ground. ”The effect of these cars are they will make people not want to drive and it will make car jobs be cut down. There's no doubt driverless cars will make our lives easier, save drivers time and provide significant user convenience. The self-driving car will be the next step in technology. Self-driving cars can help transport people much quicker and faster.

The benefits of owning a self driving car are so great, more should be on the road. One of the greatest, most desirable advantages is that there will be way less car accidents, and less fatal ones too. The article, “Self driving cars are just around the corner. Is it a good thing?”

Technology nowadays is only getting smarter and better as the years go by; driverless cars are a big success for people that have been trying to make this happen for years. Even though driverless cars exist now and have been being tested on, many companies have not worked out all the bugs on them so driverless cars are yet to be released until companies can ensure the safety of the owners of the car and the other drivers on the road. Driverless cars could possibly lessen traffic and also lessen deaths and car accidents that happen around the world. Self driving cars were always a talk of the future and the future is now. What are driverless cars?