Navigate Your car is now in charge, ex. 2a, b slide 57, After reading the comments on slide 58, try to write your viewpoint on the question “Are you for or against driverless cars?”
ex. 2a, b slide 57
1. Driving along the motorway in busy traffic the driver presses a button on the steering wheel. The car is now driving itself.
2. This may sound like science fiction, but driverless cars are already on the roads in California. Many cars can already park themselves by the side of the road, brake automatically when the car needs to slow down, and warn the driver if they are slipping out of the correct lane, so going driverless is just the next step.
3. Driverless cars come with fast broadband, allowing them to overtake other cars safely, and even communicate with traffic lights as they approach junctions. Being stuck in traffic jams could become a thing of the past, as driverless cars will be able to drive at speed much closer to each other.
4. More than fifty million people die or injured are in road accidents every year, and 90% of these accidents are caused by human error. Google’s driverless car sticks to the speed limit and doesn’t get tired. So wouldn’t it be much safer if all cars were driverless?
Are you for or against driverless cars?
In my opinion, the era/century is changing or has changed and we stepped in new century, century of techniques and machines. For me the driverless cars are safer, but on the other hand you don’t know what can happen with them. Anything can happen with them. I can give an example, when at the most responsible moment (after hitting another car on the road) the autopilot of Tesla turns off and the car hits another. The whole responsibility holds on the shoulders of the driver, who wasn’t ready for the end like that.
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