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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Driverless Cars

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Name Surname: Ramazan Özdemir
ID: 110310057 Section: ENG 102.01 Word Count: 1488
Subject: Advantages and Disadvantages of Improvement of Driverless Cars

According to LaFrance (2016), the result of combining automation and computing is seeing robots all around us and interacting with robots more and more. Therefore, world is going to become a place that you just sit in your car without the trouble of driving together with alcoholics and teenagers according to all of studies and researches about driverless cars. The car that being controlled by a computer was only dream and was possible on movies but this type of car is now becoming a fact, with many companies which are Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, BMW, Audi, and Google, currently using their money …show more content…

According to Brynjolfsson (2013), technology has already caused to loss of jobs such as 17 percent of tax preparers. Some taxi drivers and people who repairs cars will face with poorness, however, computer engineers and technicians will be needed. From one side of the situation, driverless cars and technology improvements that equal to the situation of driverless cars will have worse effect for uneducated people. In fact, there are always some people who are similar to each other and they do the traditional things like waiting regular bus or taxi, and they will probably not choose systems without a driver. In addition, there is a need for some people to be involved in non-brain activities such as entering the values to the system while generating a driverless …show more content…

Driverless cars and improvement of technology seems as well, however, it is expensive at first and causes to loss of jobs. Driverless cars are getting better day by day in most part of the technology. It should and will become a secure, safe and cheap but not expensive. As I searched about this topic, driverless cars or car that be controlled by computer was impossible at some time. Brynjolfsson said that “Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child 's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But our brains are wired for a linear world. As a result, exponential trends take us by surprise” (Brynjolfsson, 2013). As he mentioned in his talk, technology is growing much faster than us and if we cannot get used to it and if we cannot handle with it, we will lose our jobs, information and life. Driverless cars are just an example of growing technology. There are super computers with artificial intelligence, weapons that can destroy whole country and so on. Even today, technology is not like yesterday’s technology. As a result of these, driverless car will definitely more secure, fast and cheap way to travel. The world should be ready for racing with technology but not against to it, together with it because if we try to defeat

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