Automatic, self-driving cars were created to operate and function in a way that imitates the way a human would be driving, but without the human ever having to even lift a finger. At first glance, most people are thinking, “Wow, this is great! I can watch TV on long rides, play games on my phone, put on my makeup, fall asleep at the wheel, and have a drink without having to worry about drunk driving!” which are all accurate statements. Unbeknownst to us, self-driving cars have many dangerous features that the media hasn’t really advertised. The self-driving car periodically hands the car’s control back over to the human with zero warning. This means that the driver has to immediately stop what they’re doing in order to grab hold of the wheel as quickly as possible. Children and young teenagers can easily take the vehicle out for a spin because the car operates itself, putting them at great risk of being in danger. An even bigger concern is if the car happens to malfunction, you’re stuck behind the wheel of an out of control car. Have you ever been to traffic court? Whose at fault if you break a traffic law or have an accident while riding in one of these new vehicles?
“There are going to be times where the driver has to take over. And that turns out to be by far the most dangerous and totally understudied issue.” – Stanford University professor & director of the Revs Program
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/self-driving-car_n_3909069.html
Is there any concern that today’s society is relying on technology a little too much? Think about it: We rely on social media sights in order to check up on other peoples’ lives instead of face to face interaction, when the internet shuts down, we give up on the day assuming that nothing more can be accomplished until the internet is running again, without our GPS we can’t find our way around, and now we are so dependent on technology that we can’t even drive our own cars? The concern of a war of humans vs. technology has already been proposed in the past, and self-driving cars just gets us one step closer.
Elpatron • Feb 27, 2018 at 9:21 am
http://fortune.com/2017/09/13/gm-cruise-self-driving-driverless-autonomous-cars/
I think driving a car that drive itself would be amazing because you won’t have to drive anymore and you could take that time while you are going somewhere to do some of your things that need to be done. however there would be some issues when driving this type of car I personally wouldn’t trust these cars.
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https://youtu.be/WBjY3QGNdAw
makin_moves • Jan 12, 2018 at 9:28 am
There’s no way I would trust this. It would be pretty sad if humans really became so lazy that everyone had to start getting cars that drove them around everywhere. People who are drivers would lose their jobs just because the car doesn’t even need a driver anymore. I don’t think self driven cars should be sold no matter how much testing has been done electrical components always tend to fail at some point and that could be a super bad situation with self driven cars.