There are different views on if driverless cars are a good idea to incorporate into our changing world or if they are a bad idea to take over our lives in day-to-day transportation. To start off, here are some pros about driverless cars. To begin, these cars will, of course, eliminate human error and save many lives not just in the United States but in the world overall. The saved lives number in the United States will be around 37,000 and 1.3 million globally (Strassburger). This is all made possible because of innovations in technology, some of which are shown in the chart to the (location of the chart). These are only a few of the technologies in these cars that will help make the car safer and able to drive around. Some new technologies Already seeing some technologies that have come out to help the driver such as adaptive cruise control, a form of cruise control that speeds up/slows down based on the distance in front of the car, parking assist, a technology where the car alerts the driver of a parking space, then the driver just has to use a remote and the car backs itself into a parking space on its own, and lastly Vehicle-Vehicle communication, where cars “speak” to other …show more content…
Vehicle-Vehicle communication alerts the driver of possible crashes, features sensors on the car which talk to sensors on the road, traffic light, and bus stops in order to get updates on traffic and alerts to reroute your car, and even communications to your own home, smart devices, and office to give you information to go about your normal life (“Self-Driving Cars: Disruptive or