Self-driving cars are on the brink of becoming an element of the road traffic. Although they may still seem like a science fiction, the widespread adoption of self-driving cars is highly probable because there are sufficient motivators for both the consumers and manufacturers to make them a reality and soon. A number of scientific researchers have proved that the world is calling for the rapid deployment of the self-driving cars in the essence of their promises to alleviate or solve serious road problems. Moreover, the progress in the automobile industries have been promising since Google had announced that its self-driving cars had completed over 300,000 miles of accident free autonomous driving back in 2012. Nevertheless, people still question …show more content…
It begins by appraising the disparagers of the driverless driving technology referring to the paper of Wolfgang Gruel and Joseph M. Stanford, followed by that of Neil McBride. It confronts their ideas that either enough research has not been made on automotive vehicles or that they are of less ethical worth, are both superficial and unsupported. In fact, Neil McBride also claims that total autonomy is even undesirable, making a stand where perception of the truth this paper is to prevail will say against. The essay then follows the explanation based on five sources. It explains the details of the definition in relation to what the history on their manufacturing progress indicates. It then unravels the details of planning procedures behind the technology. It also delineates the impacts of the autonomous technology. Finally, it uses the sources and the insight brought from previous structures to challenge the critiques. It ends by rephrasing that we will not need to wait long to witness improved safety of roads and the merit of other discussed …show more content…
Stanford. The manager of Daimler Mobility Services, the world’s leading provider of flexible car sharing programs, Wolfgang Gruel, and the prominent MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering , Joseph M. Stanford, in their paper, “Assessing the long term effects of autonomous vehicles”, claim that the net effect of self-driving cars in terms of social benefit or harm is far from clear. In the first three paragraphs of the paper, though they admit that the widespread adoption is likely unavoidable, they argue that at least time will be required to address a number of technical and legal issues. While being appreciative of the potential of automotive vehicles; however, they “ask how behavioral changes made possible by AVs might affect traffic volume and congestion, land use, and mode choice behavior” (Gruel, Wolfgang and M.Stanford, Joseph 2015, 33). Moreover, in their last paragraph, they highlight that a “wait and see” approach with autonomic vehicles will threaten the desirable results and it will be too late to take corrective measures when a mass of those vehicles are in use. They underscore that attention be given to the discussion of their effects on both the desired and undesired long term out comes promptly (Gruel, Wolfgang and M.Stanford, Joseph 2015, 33). But, no matter