Self Driving Cars Research Paper

Vehicles have revolutionized the way humans move around. A trip that can take a week to be done by horse can be easily done in 2-3 days by car. Now recently another topic of conversation with cars has arrived. Should there be self driving cars? We have the technology to make them, even so that uber has made already made a couple of them. My argument is that we shouldn’t make self driving cars due to the ethical problems and other things that can arise if we decide to use self driving cars. First of, I can see why someone would make the argument that we should make self driving cars. That there are quite the conveniences to a car that can drive itself to a place. For example, in the website “Union of Concerned Scientists” they talk about the safety of self driving cars, “ Self-driving cars could reduce vehicle-related fatalities—machines may make fewer errors than humans”(Scientists). How a high percentage of crashes are because of human error and how that can be reduced by using self driving cars. That out of 1.3 million deaths (car crashes) “the number of
When the car is faced with a tough decision, how are we going to program it to respond? For example; “The Jesuit Post” explains it perfectly: “Car A and Car B are two self-driving cars that are side-by-side on a highway. An inattentive child darts in front of the car on the left (Car A). The car’s computer notices the child”, what should it do? Should it 1)“Swerve left to avoid both the child and the other car, and head into the median where Car A’s rider has a 60% chance of survival” or 2)“Apply the brakes swiftly but maintain a straight course. The child has a 1% chance of survival, Car A’s rider now has a 99% chance of survive, and Car B won’t be impacted”(Strassburger). Now these are tough decisions even for a human. How are we supposed to program a self driving car? Who should it save, the people in the car or the little