WRITING HW (RESEARCH PAPER)

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Self-Driving Cars

Ali Alqaatri

5/29/2017

Independent Research Writing

Instructor: Amber Bliss Caldron

People lifestyle changed in a better way due to technology. Technology has been increased in the recent years in many aspects in order to help the humanity to have an easy and simple life. Phones, airplanes, computers and cars are some of the tools that have been updated since they appeared. Tesla, Toyota, Jeep is some of the instances for cars that has changed in the last few years by containing many new features. The development of those cars has made them more futuristic in which it can be driven by itself. Some people disagree about self-driving cars and their reliability compared with traditional vehicles. However, self-driving cars are better than regular cars are in helping people in all ages, appropriate prices and they’re safer than traditional.

Most self-driving cars work by using four main than tools can help in order to control the vehicle such as cameras, two lidar units, radar sensors and the main computer that located inside the car. The cameras use multiple images to find the distance to various objects and help to detect traffic light signs. The two Lidar unit job is to locate the cars around the vehicle by generating a 360-degree image. The radar which is in many places around the car is to measure the distance between the cars around and double the safety. And finally the main computer, which gathers all the information and analyzes them to assess current conditions.

Most teenagers especially high school students, like to be independent in a way so that they can control most of the things by themselves like driving. In addition, some teenagers who don’t know how to drive or they’ve never learned it might feel less self-independent because they will ask their parents to give them a ride to a place that they want to go. And here where the self-driving car takes place. Teenagers who are ineligible to drive a car don’t drive because they ride with their parents, but they will drive when riding with a robot ( Ghirandella, 2011). To explain this point, teenagers usually have fun when they drive. To give them an opportunity to drive and be safe. Self-driving cars are the perfect solution for it because while using self-driving cars, teenagers will be able to be independent in a way that they don’t need any person to drive them to any place and it will increase the rate of braking the rules. Moreover, elderly and people with body disability can be affected negatively while using typical cars, unlike autonomics. Because people with body disability and old people tend to not walk for a long time and don’t have the ability control the steering wheel and drive. Self-driving cars can help them to go wherever they want with less control. According to John Bingham (2015) “People with limited mobility or disabilities may not have to stop driving; people in rural areas and individuals who have difficulty in traveling to bus stops and train stations could have the freedom to travel.” In other words, Self-driving cars will not just help people who live in the cities; it will also help people to be more confidence and be more conformable using autonomous vehicles.

Helping to reduce the air pollution is one of the important epacts in buying a car because this is a way to not only save the environment but also it can safe people money. As Jenny MacKay mention in Electrical cars book (2012), Gasoline price starts to increase day after day and the only way to have freedom is to encourage people to buy electrical cars. What Jenny means is that the fastest people buy electrical cars, the more money they will be saving in the long run because the oil will not stay forever. In addition, an example of a great move is that in London, there are limited parking in a big city. The governments have removed any fees to park if the car is an electrical car. This is a way to encourage people to buy electrical cars and safe their more money instead of paying to park not only that but also there is more than 250 charging station that can charge the car while it parks to make the charging process more conformable for the drivers, unlike traditional cars.

Some people might say that traditional cars are safer than self-driving cars because the person who drives the car can control the car 100% while driving. Certainly, safety is an important role toward reliable transportation, and without it, people ability in going to places will not be beneficial. On the one hand, many drivers usually multitask while they are driving which is a very dangerous issue. Edgar Snyder website (2011), around 660,000 drivers are attempting to use their phones while they are driving, at any time during the day. Multitasking while driving can be led to crash, injured or death in some cases. The National Safety Council (2015) reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year. Not only that but also it reduces the focuses ability on the road by 400% than others. Furthermore, most teenagers are aware of the danger of texting and driving. Unfortunately, 35% only admitted to doing it even though all the 94% are multitasking and driving, AAA poll (2016). On the other hand, self-driving cars can decrease the rate of those accidents. The first change is that deaths in the city that are the results of multitasking while driving, specifically by people texting on phones, will decrease since robots are programmed not to multitask (Ratti&Claudel 2015). Therefore, being driven by driverless cars allows the riders to do whatever they want to do without being in the danger of multitasking while driving.

In conclusion, self-driving cars are helping people not only old people and teenagers but also have been decreasing the rate of accidents capability and save money and time. Although traditional cars are now the most common cars, self-driving cars will help to think more about the future. People should enhance and support the invention of self-driving cars in order to develop our world and generation because this is the future.

Reference List:

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Snyder, A. Texting and Driving Accident Statistics - Distracted Driving. edgarsnyder.com. Retrieved 31 May 2017, from https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-accident/cause-of-accident/cell-phone/cell-phone-statistics.html

National Safety Council. (2015). Retrieved 28 May 2017, from http://www.nsc.org/DistractedDrivingDocuments/Attributable-Risk-Estimate.pdf

Driving, T. (2016). The Dangers of Texting and Driving | Civic Issue. Sites.psu.edu. Retrieved 24 April 2017, from http://sites.psu.edu/taylorariety/2016/03/02/the-dangers-of-texting-and-driving/

Claudle, M., & Ratti, C. (2015). Full speed ahead: How the driverless car could transform cities.

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http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability-and-resource-productivity/our-insights/full-speed-ahead-how-the-driverless-car-could-transform-cities

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