Journal #6

According to the passage, the author argues that self-driving vehicles can help reduce the rate of traffic accidents, enable people who cannot drive to get around, and, when it becomes an efficient shared vehicle, it will dramatically decrease traffic congestion.

When it comes to some challenges or negative behind self-driving vehicles, some traffic incidents immediately emerge in my mind, for example, who take the incidents responsibility under self-driving system. As we all known, no matter how advanced the system of onboard microcomputer, it is inevitable that microcomputer must connect with Internet to update new map data. In other words, it is possible that it can be invaded by hacker. As a consequence, traffic accidents will happen during driving. Meanwhile, once data modified illegally, many people will be influenced, and maybe a large number accidents could happen together, which is incredible and miserable.

Several days ago, I saw a piece of news that a woman in England drove into river under the navigation of map on the website. So, if errors in map contribute to the traffic accidents, it will cause large areas traffic congestion or even more serious.

In my opinion, I will advise my family members to drive vehicles personally unless some emergent situations like injury or drunk. From the application of self-driving vehicles, it is difficult to become widespread use of public areas.