The author stated that self-driving
vehicles can reduce car accidents, enable people who cannot drive to go around
by using some quotations and persuasive statistics to argue the importance of
self-driving vehicles. These automated vehicles have a promising potential in
the future to both benefit our individuals and the entire society.
However, I am afraid of assuming one day what
will happen if the electrical system made some mistakes. When every corner of
the city becomes a mess with cars going random directions, how many people will
die in the new type of "car accidents"? And how many hopeless people who are not
able to drive will call for help? Oh! Maybe the police themselves don’t know how
to drive at all. Is it dramatic? I don’t want this to become a truth.
In my opinion, it is not wise to make your
life depends on the computer. Nothing can be perfect. Nowadays, even though the
safest transportation such as planes and underground trains they have auto-drive
functions, they still need professional drivers to solve any emergent problems.
As the automated vehicles become popular, more and more people will tend not to
learn how to drive. The person who knows how to drive will also forget this
skill because he never uses this. Mostly driving skills become useless. Then it
comes to my assumption. What will happen if the automated driving systems were out
of functions? Who can save your life? None. Especially a private car which is
an individual vehicle must face this risk.
Some technologies are worth consideration
because their risks or their disadvantages could be avoided or compensate by
humans ourselves. However, for an automated vehicle if we want to decrease its
risk the best way is we have a professional driver in the car. Then the problem goes back. Finally, we will
find that the automated driving technology has a great limit on our daily
lives.
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