Self Driving Cars Make Society Safe

Self-Driving Cars: Do They Really Make Society Safer? Envision a society where you never are forced to spend tedious hours staring at the highway, never have to parallel park, a world with self-driving cars. According to Steven E Shladover, from Scientific American. vehicles capable of driving in every situation will arrive around 2075. Although the future may seem limitless and safer than ever, it is a delusional dream that puts the lives of innocent people and society as a whole in danger. Several scholars that support the idea of independently-operating vehicles often tend to ignore the serious safety concerns and reality of the technology. Cars capable of autonomous operation have a negative impact on society because vehicles are incapable

Cars, however, are not capable of this ability and are unable to make moral decisions, and therefore, would create a serious threat to a humane society. When comparing human decisions to those than an autonomous vehicle would make, it is crucial to consider utilitarianism. By definition, utilitarianism is choosing to carry out the action, when given a choice, will benefit the most people. For example, if one is given the choice to save a single person’s life, or the life of five individuals, it is likely for them to save the majority, instead of the individual, because it benefits more people. This quality, however, is non-existent in the operating system of a robot, for a car thinks solely with logic and is unable to process information with emotion. A compassionate and logical human being, put in the situation of a collision and given the choice to collide with a car full of children or with a car with a single person, would likely try to avoid the children. A self-driving vehicle, on the other hand, would only receive statistics about the vehicles, not about the living bodies inside of them. To further analyze, cars are incapable of interpreting body language or signals put out by other drivers. Back in February, a car owned by the company Google collided with another vehicle, a bus (Raymundo). An employee at the company

In the modern day in age, the average man cannot make it through the day without a cellphone. What would society be if the average man was not even capable of controlling his own vehicle? Charles Dicken’s, one of the wisest men of the age, summarizes this issue brilliantly, “The age of wisdom, the age of foolishness…” (Sawers). As technology becomes progressively advanced, man becomes progressively more foolish because he cannot function independently. Self-operating vehicles will create a society of indecency and foolish people unable to fend for themselves. Becoming too reliant on technology would not only create a void of dignity, but would also be a safety concern. “Think about how often your laptop freezes up…” says scholar SOURCE. However, a car system freezing up would be much more alarming than a computer crashing. If a person cannot take maneuver a vehicle independently, they are relying solely on the hardware of the car. This amount of reliance puts their life and the lives of those around them in danger, for they will lose complete control if the vehicle’s system crashes. Though reliance on technology and incapability of thinking morally clearly would have a negative impact on society, some experts argue that self-operating vehicles are