Our Driverless Future Analysis

Our Driverless Future is an essay about the various impacts that autonomous vehicles bring to customers while they are using it. The essay is in the third person point of view that separated into four segments. The author uses Uber’s experience of picking up passengers to discuss different safety issues about autonomous vehicles exist. Sue Halpern claims that the originally designed safety features of self-driving cars such as auto-brakes, auto-lane changing, or speed-maintaining as an entry point to discuss her opinions about self-driving vehicles. At the bottom of page two, she wrote “Paradoxically, though, cars equipped with these features can make driving less safe, not more, because of what Lipson and Kurman call “split responsibility,”
Sue Halpern exemplifies Joshua Brown’s reliability of autopilot is the cause of his death (He counted on the autopilot to drive away from the white truck that was near him. It didn’t, and Brown was killed) on page three. After the author discussed the technical issue, she transforms reader’s attention from the technical problem to the moral issue. “Then there are the ethical considerations. Machines can learn, but they can’t process information without instructions, and as a consequence, autonomous vehicles will have to be programmed in advance to respond to various life-and-death scenarios” and initiates segment three. In segment three, she proposed a question how will programmers establish autonomous vehicle's system when it encountered accidents: what objects will it decide to avoid? Who to save first?. At the last segment, she raises a question that is related to the economy, “What of Uber drivers themselves? These are the poster people for the gig-economy, “entrepreneurs”—which is to say freelancers—who use their own cars to ferry people around,” which shifts the ethical concern to the economic