Imagine a car that can reach from one location to another without an operator. It might sound unbelievable, however the first driverless car was presented in August 1961. Driverless cars are also known as self driving, autonomous, and automated vehicles. Self driving vehicles are a life saving machine for Americans. Everyone has a chance of getting into an accident while operating a normal vehicle, not depending on the at fault rates. That chance is three to four accidents per lifetime; with being behind the wheel. With knowing that it is good to be informed that driverless cars do not have a certain age group documented for the use of it. Rates of drunk driving, at fault, and fatal crashes have decreased; since autonomous vehicles have been implemented into mainstream society.
“A number of today’s new motor vehicles have technology that helps drivers avoid drifting into adjacent lanes or making unsafe lane changes, or that warns drivers of other vehicles behind them when they are backing up, or that brakes automatically if a vehicle ahead of them stops or slows
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Higher-end cars you can buy today boast features like “lane-keeping,” to keep your car centered in its lane on the highway, and adaptive cruise control, which adjusts to the speed of traffic around you. People are already abusing these, too — an online video shows a car steering itself down the highway as its driver climbs into the backseat. One entitled ‘Invisible Driver Prank In A Tesla!’ catches the reactions of passing motorists, dumbfounded as the seemingly empty car drives itself along an interstate highway. Tesla’s autopilot feature attained some infamy after a fatal incident on a Florida highway in May. Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old man from Ohio, died when neither he nor his Model S braked before driving under an 18-wheeler. (Tesla has since released a software update that company co-founder Elon Musk says likely would’ve prevented the