Pros And Cons Of Self-Driving Car
Introduction
Self- driving cars use to be a farfetched idea but now that they are here, so what does this mean for society as we know it? Will it be the next big thing for transportation or just a fad that will come and go? 11 minor crashes have been caused by Google’s driverless cars. So the question that remains is when will the autonomous vehicles be ready (Ghose, 2015). Shladover, a researcher at the Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, stated that getting to the level of taking children to school without parents or taking a handicapped person or someone with a disability to a medial appointment, is many decades away (Ghose, 2015).
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According to the U.S. Department of transportation about 65% of U.S. roads are in poor condition. The poor markings and uneven signs on more than 3 million miles of roadways are forcing manufacturers to develop more innovative and sophisticated sensors and maps to overcompensate for the subpar infrastructure (Sage, 2016). To avoid a technological failure, extra sensors, maps and data need to be added to these cars. This will unfortunately will add to the cost. If the extra cost is not spent on perfecting this software, passengers will be at risk. It either comes down to spending money on fixing every roadway across America or increasing the cost to produce one of these …show more content…
The leading cause of these crashes are caused by distractions (Auto Insurance Center, 2016). The use of self- driving technology has the ability to eliminate this danger all together because these vehicles do not get distracted. But they do not completely remove the possibility of a car accident. They have the ability to calculate precise speed and stopping distance which helps decrease the chances of a car accident. As of now if a self- driving car were to get into a car accident, there is no legal precedent for handling this situation. So the questions that remains is who is responsible for the occurrence (Auto Insurance Center,
Self- driving cars use to be a farfetched idea but now that they are here, so what does this mean for society as we know it? Will it be the next big thing for transportation or just a fad that will come and go? 11 minor crashes have been caused by Google’s driverless cars. So the question that remains is when will the autonomous vehicles be ready (Ghose, 2015). Shladover, a researcher at the Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, stated that getting to the level of taking children to school without parents or taking a handicapped person or someone with a disability to a medial appointment, is many decades away (Ghose, 2015).
This paper will analyze the issues of self- driving …show more content…
According to the U.S. Department of transportation about 65% of U.S. roads are in poor condition. The poor markings and uneven signs on more than 3 million miles of roadways are forcing manufacturers to develop more innovative and sophisticated sensors and maps to overcompensate for the subpar infrastructure (Sage, 2016). To avoid a technological failure, extra sensors, maps and data need to be added to these cars. This will unfortunately will add to the cost. If the extra cost is not spent on perfecting this software, passengers will be at risk. It either comes down to spending money on fixing every roadway across America or increasing the cost to produce one of these …show more content…
The leading cause of these crashes are caused by distractions (Auto Insurance Center, 2016). The use of self- driving technology has the ability to eliminate this danger all together because these vehicles do not get distracted. But they do not completely remove the possibility of a car accident. They have the ability to calculate precise speed and stopping distance which helps decrease the chances of a car accident. As of now if a self- driving car were to get into a car accident, there is no legal precedent for handling this situation. So the questions that remains is who is responsible for the occurrence (Auto Insurance Center,