The Ethics Of Driverless Cars Analysis

Argument
All engineers dream of creating something that is revolutionary; self-driving cars are a dream slowly becoming a reality. In Neil McBride’s (Sept 2015) article “The Ethics of Driverless Cars” published in SIGCAS Computer & Society, he declares that he believes our society is not ready for self-driving cars. In Milos N. Mladenovic’s and Tristram McPherson’s (August 2015) article “Engineering Social Justice into Traffic Control for Self-Driving Vehicles?” published in Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015, also agrees that we aren’t ready for self driving cars just yet. Although many agree that we are not ready, there are also others whom believe the opposite because of how much safer driving cars would be without humans.
McBride explains how self-driving cars are very smart on there own, but for them to actually be common in our society they need to work along side humans: “The technological and the human are more entangled, impossible to prise apart and must be considered as a whole (McBride, 2015, p. 184). He also states, “It is the machine that is autonomous and the human that is disempowered” (McBride, 2015, p. 181) making us below something we, humans, created. In this article the author tells us how we could lose our identities to these self-driving cars: “In societies where reputation, wealth, and role in society are represented in the car and its use, driverless cars will pose a threat” (McBride, 2015, p. 183). In this article McBride tells us how great self-driving cars can be on there own, but the possibilities vastly extend if we can use them cooperatively. In our minds us being human makes up the most powerful things on the planet Earth. McBride explains if we aren’t integrated with self-driving we will become powerless in a way; we will rely fully on a car. McBride explains in this article that in our society these days the way you drive your car and the way you represent that car defines your personal identity. Therefore, making it so that the cars and society still function together solves all the problems we, as humans, face with making self-driving cars a
Mladenovic and McPherson both write about how we already have a system in place, although it isn’t optimized for self-driving cars: “We thus have reason to expect that that contemporary conventional traffic control (C1) will be replaced by a next-generation of traffic control that utilizes these new technologies—traffic control 2.0 (C2)” (Mladenovic&McPherson, 2015, p. 1334-1335). In the article Mladenovic and McPherson explain how the changes are needed before we can introduce them to the general public: “The convergence of computing, sensing, and communication technology will soon permit large-scale deployment of self-driving vehicles. This will in turn permit a radical transformation of traffic control technology” (Mladenovic&McPherson, 2015, p. 1334-1335). Mladenovic and McPherson both write about how we have been using the same traffic control system for decades even though technology has evolved. They also explain how creating a new technology like this will allow us to finally put to use the greatest technology ever: self-driving