technologies more affordable. Google started its driverless car efforts in 2009. However, their focus was different from other companies. Instead of long haul freeway driving, they created products that would be useful for daily commuting and town trips. Google has a great advantage to this due to their extensive mapping and imaging technologies. Taking another different path, Uber has been directly involved in the development of actual driverless technology. Uber, being a taxi-like company, would greatly benefit from driverless vehicles. If they someday have a fleet of driverless cars and SUVs, their profits would skyrocket. About 80% of the money made by an Uber ride goes to the driver. If Uber had driverless vehicles, 100% of the profits …show more content…
Researchers have predicted that a driverless future would reduce the number of car accidents by 90 percent. A world in which every car was driverless would be the safest outcome, with vehicles shifting through traffic using computer coordination. It will take many years for everyone to have a car like this, but we can still accomplish a smaller goal. Putting just a few of these cars on the road is expected to significantly reduce traffic, which would make it logical for the government to support them. Another reason the government should support automated vehicles is that a significant reduction in accidents would be beneficial to American lives. Once these manufacturers improve the technology in automated vehicles, more laws will be passed in states other than California, allowing the widespread sale of autonomous cars to the public. Experts have estimated that over 10 million autonomous vehicles will be on the road by 2020, and analysis’s in the United Kingdom have predicted that every car in Britain will be autonomous by 2050. These predictions have not followed through, as it is almost 2018 and 99.9% of cars on the road do not have this technology. However, a more obtainable goal that experts have predicted is that 95% of vehicles sold in 2040 will be autonomous. If car manufacturing companies continue to be profitable, I strongly believe they will continue to develop automated technology that will allow these cars to hit the road in a noticeable