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The Pros And Cons Of Autonomous Vehicles

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According the Huffingtonpost.com, the autonomous vehicles will replace taxi drivers. Uber, Google and Tesla are already working on the complete driverless autonomous cars. Uber is openly planning to replace human drivers with self driving cars. This will disrupt the transportation and other industries directly and indirectly. There would be many job losses in the GTA if Uber replaces the taxi industry by self driving cars. There would be food delivery, postal services, paramedics drivers, truck drivers, parking or traffic police, etc. Most of the industries would be affected directly by autonomous vehicles. The postal services will lose jobs from companies such as UPS, FedEx, and Canada Post. This job loss would be in Amazon drones are not replaced by these companies. There would also be sharp decline in car ownership and owning a car be a luxury item. The insurance companies would have far less customers with conventional drivers. This may also lead the insurance companies to raise the insurance cost of the remaining less …show more content…

Vehicles are divided into five levels for automation as suggested by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Level 0 is used on a car when human driver has total control over all function of the car. Level 1 defines that one car function is automated. Level 2 defines that more than one function is automated at the same time while the driver remains constantly attentive, for example, the steering and acceleration could be fully automated at the same time, however the driver has to be attentive and could take control over the automated function any time. Level 3 defines that most of the driving functions are automatic and the driver can safely engage in other activities and does not require attention. Lastly, level 4 is defines that the car drives without any humans in

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