Persuasive Essay On Driverless Cars

Picture the streets completely filled with cars, not moving, going nowhere; an endless standstill of traffic. Driverless cars aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, they can and will cause problems. If driverless cars take over then laws will need to be rewritten, new possibile insurance matters occur, and traffic will increase causing longer commutes. The legal system was written in a way that assumed there would be drivers actively operating a vehicle thus would take a lot of effort to fix. “Not only will new laws have to be drawn up, but our old laws will need some serious rewording, too, since people in the dark ages of driverless cars (any year before this one, really) assumed there would be a driver with his or her hands on the wheel and feet on the pedal -- and not just for show.” This quote shows that our law system was meant to have an active person participating in the driving process. It means that the legal system would be incorrect in any case of driverless cars. Not only would it be incorrect in certain judgments, but in some
“When driverless cars accelerated and decelerated in the style of light rail, the congestion deteriorated from 4 percent to 50 percent and the number of cars traveling through the intersection also fell between 4 percent and 21 percent.” This means that not only was there more vehicles on the road for longer, but less vehicles managed to get through lights which would cause more cars to be stuck waiting for the light to change. Also that only applies to the light rail, when they attempted to do a high speed rail style of smoothness it got incredibly bad. “Delays increased from 36 percent to nearly 2,000 percent and the intersection capacity fell between 18 percent and 53 percent.” Meaning that if the driverless cars tried to do a high speed rail style they would clog up the streets and rarely make it through the