Technological Narratives And The Shape Of The Automated Car

Creating automated machines has been an extensive part of human history, the interest in creating automated vehicles further exposes humanity’s dependence on technology, in which will produce a world where technology and humans co-exists as contemporaries. Today, the self-driving car makes sense to the general public because past-automated technologies have been proven to work, in which their development feeds into the perception that all remaining complex tasks will soon yield to automation. However, ethical concerns like the idea of robots displacing humans, transformation of roads and environments for the automated vehicles, and the question of how automotive corporation will profit after this transformation of transportation are all good

For example, the new types of skilled labor such as taxi drivers, bus drivers, limousine scoffers will be put out of business in which will lead to their unemployment and poverty. In Erik Lee Stayton’s article “Driverless Dreams: Technological Narratives and the Shape of the Automated Car” Stayton mentions, “Around the same time, in Ford Motor Company’s Brooks Park engine plants, near Cleveland, forty-two automatic machines… through 1,545 feet of assembly line, no human touched the parts… In truth an operator stood by each machine, ensuring its continued operation. This human labor, menial as it may be, is not often recognized.8 The worker no longer makes choices about how to bore a part—choices now built into the industrial equipment she oversees—but chooses to turn the machine on and off” (Stayton). Though, the process of current state of industrial labor may be menial; however, since humans are still involved in the construction of automated labor shows that until artificial intelligence is able to build itself we as humans have not been displaced by machines. Instead, humans act as God; managing their creation, which is the machine that will eventually replace us as a

Although, the Google Car has the opportunity to transform the lives of the elderly, physically handicapped, reduce traffic delays, equalize the mobility between the wealthy and homeless, and even eradicate the need for parking lots, garages, or gas stations; however, this much upside does not go without cost. Thus, large-scale system design strategies must fashioned to be accessible by all transportation users. Furthermore, laws must be changed to support the safety of its new automated environment, in which needs to be supported and financed by the