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Analysis of Driverless Cars

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Analysis of Driverless Cars

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1DRIVERLESS CARS
Technology is making its presence felt in almost every arena and one such arena is the
automotive sector. Driverless cars are the innovations of this sector that make use of
numerous sensors for understanding the nearby environment. The informations that are
obtained through the sensors help these cars to navigate in proper direction. There are
advantages as well as various disadvantages of this technology (Kaur and Rampersad 2018).
Reductions in the road accidents can be considered as one of the major reasons for
development of driverless cars but it is necessary to understand the reasons why these are
unable to capture the market.
Advantages of driverless cars include its potential to bring in reductions in the road
accidents and another is best medium for transportation for disabled people. Disabled people
face a lot of problems commuting in public vehicles thus they can opt for driverless cars for
enjoying the various benefits of enhanced mobility. Disadvantages related to the technology
include vulnerability to hacking and high cost. Hackers can get into the programming of
driverless cars thus disrupting the system (Roe 2019). Technical failures can certainly happen
such as defect in sensors which can cause severe accidents. The technology behind driverless
cars requires lots of sensors and good programming which adds to the cost. The cost is
recouped by the setting the sales price to a high value.
Semi-autonomous cars are already on roads but it can be said that these have not been
able to capture the market yet. The reason can be that drivers have a misconception that semi-
autonomous cars can cope up with any or every situation that they encounter. Experts are of
the opinion that drivers do not understand what should be done or what they cannot do (Tech
Tent - driven to distraction? 2020). Many big companies have tried testing driverless cars but
due to some or other thing they have stopped proceeding with this venture. For instance, Uber
suspended its self-driving car across North American cities after a fatal accident in which a
woman aged 49 years was run down by a driverless car while was crossing a street in Arizona
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