Are we ready for Autonomous Vehicle Technology?
Have you ever thought about a life without technology? With the invention of every new thing, life gets easier. Distances have shrunk with the massive changes that have taken place in transportation. Within a few hours, we can travel from one part of the country to another.
The only time my grandfather went abroad was when he travelled by camel from Afghanistan to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, 120 years ago on a pilgrimage.
He was 25 years old. First, he travelled from Panjshir to Kabul on foot, and walked for three days with four relatives, all from the same area. After arriving in Kabul, it took six days to get to Herat province. He got sick, he spent a week in Herat before continuing to Iran on a donkey, a distance of 375Kilometers. From Iran, he crossed into Iraq by camel, as part of a caravan of about 100 pilgrims on camels along with many donkeys, and sheep. On the way to Mecca, a howling sandstorm stopped them from traveling further. He waited
for hours in the scorching desert until the storm died down. Then they continued their journey. It took him forty days to travel from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia. While he reminded me of his story, I felt I was there with the caravan. I felt the heat of the sun and the force of the sandstorm.
When the car entered our lives, it had a profound impact on our world. Cars were how people modernized. It also had a positive impact on economies and businesses in different ways, even in ways nobody could have foretold.
The most visible change for ordinary people is cars that provided them with the means of getting around rapidly. Cars were a revolutionary invention in terms of transportation. Through the invention of the car, pleasure trips became affordable for ordinary people. Cars provide lots of convenience for people, unlike my grandfather’s camel.
Why are people not interested in Self-driving cars?
However, we must be ready for further innovation in a vehicle-influenced modern world. If we consider driverless cars, how will they be as effective as the people who sit in the driving seat to drive? Life will get dumber with driverless cars, people will have less enjoyment than they had in the past with regular cars. People demand public transportation more than Autonomous cars. And, of course, what will taxi, and hackney drivers do if they cannot drive for a living.
The self-driving car is a challenge because its development requires highly skilled IT professionals in the US, Ireland, and other countries. While I believe that life will become more comfortable with self-driving cars, it will also be more stressful. And people relying on the innovation of artificial intelligence innovation could become lazier.
What will be the Pros and cons of self-driving cars?
Pros of Self-driving cars:
No disturbances from the outdoor. More efficient travel in the morning, if you be late, it provides you chances of being ready within the last moment or can say time consumer vehicle. Autonomous vehicles’ range of vision is more than a human’s vision. Definitely, I can say that autonomous vehicles reduce the number of accidents, however, we cannot say the rate of accidents will be zero. Weather condition is another challenge that self-driving car should work in any weather condition. It can make it a failure. It will be more unsafe to wait for traffic to clear if there is more motor traffic. which may eventually result in a traffic jam this is another challenge of self-driving cars.
On March 18, 2018, the New York Times released the news of an Uber self-driving car collision that had happened on a wide stretch of road in Tempe, Arizona. Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by the car while she was riding a bicycle at the corner of the street. She died because of her injuries.
These types of collisions have happened with Tesla self-driving cars as well. Self-driving cars can navigate at night better than human drivers. The human eye can see 250 feet in the dark. Robotic
taxis can see 820 feet in all directions. Also, the reactions of machines are very much faster on roads, about 0.5 a second on a dry road compared to 1.6 seconds for humans.
The drivers, the implementation of artificial intelligence in human life, it puts a negative effect on people’s job life, rental taxis, trucks, buses even pilots can rest their jobs and service. Importantly job opportunity concerns will increase, and the job inflation rate will go high.
It took my grandfather 40 days to travel to Mecca and as much time to return. Was it convenient? No. Was it dangerous in part? Yes. But it left him with a lifetime of memories and great stories to tell his grandchildren. What stories will the passengers in a driverless car have?