Self Driving Car - (Thoughts on a Topic NOT Presented by your group)

In 2007, Walt Disney surprised the audience with a fiction movie called “Meet the Robinsons” by its scenes about the future life and one of the most impressive scenes of the movie is how the cars of the future work. Technology has been developed every day that the dream of having a self-driving car comes really close to us nowadays. If self-driving car become popular in the future, there will be a lot of advantages by increasing safety and travel demand for the occupants, shifting the way people think about ownership comes along with the disadvantages such as false sense of security and rushing design which leads to fatal accidents. There are many researchers agree that self-driving cars will be much safer than normal cars because of lacks distracted and error-prone human. About more than 90% traffic accident are caused by people and using a self-driving car can decrease the percentage of unwanted accidents. Moreover, self-driving cars have faster reactions than human which can become a solution on road. Autonomous programmed to priority the occupants’ safety in case of any accidents, it processes faster and has faster reactions to any sudden pop up situations that happen while driving. This product will make the cars running on the street more than a normal one which helps the disabled, elderly and young age driver increase the mobility. Finally, about the advantages of the self-driving cars is this kind of vehicle has lower cost and even safer for the environment than the cars we use today. By the time driving become cheaper and easier, the demand of traveling will increase significantly, and it will benefit the economy a lot. However, there are still a lot of disadvantages besides all the good points above. Tesla’s accident in March 2018 is an evidence about autonomous car still cannot be assured the occupants’ safety while driving (Tesla’s self-driving car burst into flame and the driver died shortly afterward at the hospital). This scandal proved that the technology can be fooled because the cameras in the trial car apparently didn’t “see” the white trailer in front of the car as an obstacle, possibly because the trailer was hard to distinguish against a bright sky. However, technology is still developing, and self-driving cars are being fixed and updated every day. Accidents happen every day whether they are caused by autonomous or human distracted, so we can’t blame the new cars for the faults just because of one accident they caused. Personally, I am looking forward to the new intelligence car because of all the advantages that it can bring to the society.