Impact of Self-Driving Cars on Changing Way of Life

This report discusses the impact of self-driving cars on changing the way of life. It includes literature review, research methodology, and implications of the research.

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Abstract
This part of the report is prepared so as to reflect the importance of self-driving cars and how
their usage can impact the lifestyle of people on adopting the technology in their daily usage. As
a means to it, suitable literature review is carried out within the report reflecting the various
aspects of self driving cars ad their usage in consideration to its benefits and challenges. Suitable
research methods are also being suggested within the report that will help the future researchers
to carry out researches based on the field. Finally, the research implications and the ethical
considerations are also pointed out based on the study.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................4
Literature Review:.......................................................................................................................4
Research Methodology:...............................................................................................................6
Implication of the research:.........................................................................................................8
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................9
References:....................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:
Autonomous cars are considered to be the type of vehicles that are mainly driven by the
modern digital technologies in collaboration to Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine learning
(ML).The self-driving cars are regarded as the type of self-automated vehicles that are capable
enough of navigating themselves while driving on road and is designed in such a way that they
occupy less space on roads. The knowledge of self-driving cars has attracted the human
imagination since the 1930s till it was decided in the 2020s to out the cars on the streets of some
of the major cities in US. By the recent ages the idea of self-driving cars is advancing in a rapid
way where it is concerned with only a matter of time. For a self-driving car, it is very much
important to have an efficient artificial intelligence system that would help in sensing the
surrounding incidents while processing visual data so as to determine the presence of any type of
collision, determining the operation of the machineries of the car including operation of its
brakes, steering and making use of the GPS to track the location and destination of the cars. In
direction to perceive the visual surroundings, the self-driving cars are also equipped with the
combined system of video cameras, lidar and radar (Bojarski et al., 2016). The AI present within
the self-driving cars helps in synthesizing while analyzing the unexpected block of obstacles that
comes in its way. Thus, autonomous cars are defined as the type of vehicles that are guided by
themselves and does not require any kind of human involvement. The concept of autonomous car
has become the concrete reality while it has caused huge adoption within the future systems
where computers are gradually taking over the traditional way of driving. The field of
autonomous car vehicles is a part of interest for many of the researchers as it helps in
accomplishing various areas of automated technology representing their past, present and future.
A radical change within the automated skill of autonomous cars are being reflected since 1920s

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where the first kind of radio-controlled cars were calculated gradually leading to the generation
of automated electric cars that are powered by embedded circuits. As most of the companies are
involving themselves in launching fully automated vehicles nowadays hence it can be marked as
the era of comfortable and safe way of transportation. This part of the report is hence prepared so
as to discuss how the self-driving car will impact upon the way of life while discussing the
different aspects that are connected to the self-driving car technology.
Discussion:
Literature Review:
According to Greenblatt, (2016), in modern era, vehicles are mainly focused on providing
automated services to allow human drivers a more relaxed way of driving. In the area of
automobile industry, various features are measured while developing any automated vehicles.
Google, which is known to be one of the biggest networks towards starting the development of
self driving cars since 2010, is still known to be developing vehicles that are automated in nature.
Automated vehicles are known to be a part of technological development in case of automobile
industries that are meant to ease out the performances for mankind and are simultaneously very
much expensive to get afforded by everyone. In case of developing automated vehicular systems,
the vehicular robotic prototype is used so as to design the self driving cars to reach out their
destination safely in comparison to other vehicles (Nyholm & Smids, 2016). Various issues as
well as benefits may arise in this respect leading to misleading the traffic signal or any type of
technological failure.
As per Zakharenko, (2016), human are known to perform certain errors in making
judgements as different individuals express their decisions in different ways. As a result of

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which, human beings are getting inherently disposed so as to provide a comparison to the natural
state of mechanical cars being driven by people to that of the state of cars being automated or
self-driven. It can be estimated that the dramatic change within the transportation facilities the
next generation transportation system is going to change drastically with the arrival of the self-
driving autonomous cars (Gora & Rüb, 2016). Some researches suggest that the usage of self-
driving cars ae going to reflect a large influence in all respects. The transformation from human
driven cars to that of self-driven cars is likely to provide a momentous impact over the lives of
people and their society. As far as the convenience and safety of individuals are concerned the
sue of self-driving cars are likely to create a larger impact on the society as well as on the
environment.
It is estimated that around 1 billion of self-driven vehicles are going to double themselves
in the future years by the year 2040 (Hars, 2015). Some of the views that are gathered from
people using the self-driving cars it is analyzed that with the use of self-driven cars the overall
scenario has changed undoubtedly. However, with the current point of time, the adoption of self-
driven car technology is somewhat not yet viable for widespread violation. The number of
companies that are working towards the adoption of self-driving cars are gradually increasing
while increasing the involvement of companies including Google, Apple, BMW and many more.
The adoption of self-driving cars is estimated to change the world in various ways by
means of granting enormous freedom to machines which will in turn reduce the cost of using the
cars in a traditional way (Shladaver, 2016). People who are adopting the self-driven automated
cars, generally face a lot of benefits with the reduction of the overall costs, road accidents,
congestion as well as pollution. In collaboration to this the use of automated cars has the huge
capability of reducing the number of deaths or injuries in roads where it is estimated that the

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number of road accidents have reduced in a considerable rate after the adoption of the automated
vehicles.
The use of computerized vehicles will not only decrease the number of accidents, but it
will also cause its impact in the environment where with the use of self-driven cars, the amount
of carbon emission will get dramatically reduced (Diels & Bos, 2016). The autonomous cars are
built in such a way that their efficiency in acceleration can be optimized accordingly while
bringing in variation in its speeds and helping in to increase the efficiency in fuel intake thus
reducing the overall emission of carbon.
On the other hand, the adoption of automated cars will also cause the change in the
consumer behaviors where the industry experts have predicted that with the adoption of robot
taxis, people will stop owning cars of their own as a result of which the vehicle ownership would
decline to about 43% as per US Industry reports (Pettersson & Karlsson, 2015).
With the introduction of new technologies new challenges also does exists leading to the
introduction of new problems. The most challenging area that is estimated will be affecting the
lives of the people, is the rise of unemployment. With the introduction of the self-driving cars,
the drivers will get transformed to mechanics. A thorough training process will need to get
introduced for the drivers, truck drivers, taxi drivers where they will get trained for tasks such as
teleoperation of vehicles, monitoring of vehicular operations and many more. The introduction of
self-driving cars will surely bring in changes within the life of people creating tremendous
impact on the entire vehicular industry leading to some technological challenges and existential
uncertainties.

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Research Methodology:
Applying research methodology while adopting any research process helps in identifying
the crucial information that are undertaken for the overall study (Glesne, 2016). For any
research, the research methodology chapter helps in identifying the appropriate use of methods
and techniques that helps in evaluating the data while analyzing the information with proper
justification. With the methodology, it is important to use a suitable procedure of investigation
philosophy that assist in revealing the overall procedure of gaining accurate and relevant data. As
per the topic of the research concerns, the research philosophy that would be selected in this
research is the theory of Positivism (Taylor, Bogdan & DeVault, 2015). Applying the theory of
positivism within research philosophy help in identifying the methods and techniques that are
used for eliminating the use of unwanted resources. The use of positivism will also allow the
proper identification of sources that would help in further research of the study. Hence the other
methods of research philosophy are rejected here. In the next step of the research methodology, it
is required to choose the suitable research approach in order to gather and analyze the data
obtained efficiently. In order to eliminate the use of unwanted resources, a deductive method of
research approach is found to be appropriate for this study. The deductive technique of
investigation approach helps in developing the hypothesis of the research while analyzing the
required objectives of the business. Hence in this case, the other methods of research approach
are being disapproved for this research. Selecting the suitable research project is another
significant step for leading any research methodology. There are different types of research
design that can be applied for a specific research method. In order to proceed with the following
research methodology, thee conclusive way of research design is adopted in this study that will
help in assisting the overall process that is required for further analyzing and collecting the data.

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The data that will be collected while conducting the research will provide relevant information
that will pave the path for conclusion and recommendation for the study (Silverman, 2016). In
this study, both the main as well as the secondary sources of data will get collected so as to
evaluate the overall research study. The application of secondary data will help in providing a
theoretical background to the topic of the study which is related to the effect of self-driving cars
on the lifestyle of the people. The detailed review the literature that is conducted will help in
utilizing the data gathered from secondary sources. Obtaining the primary data will help in
gaining the raw data while developing relevant context for the study. The overall research
methodology that will be used in this case in the qualitative method of research. A qualitative
method of research approach helps in seeking information from a particular group of people
while focusing on the topic of the research. The main logic that runs behind the conduction of
qualitative research methodology can be sometimes challenging for the researchers so as to
conduct the overall research. Unlike quantitative research methodology, the qualitative research
methodology helps in responding to the specific hypothesis while collecting and analyzing data
by means of empirical research. As the entire qualitative research methodology tends to be more
exploratory in nature, hence it seeks more insights based on how individuals would react to
certain questions that would be asked within the research survey that would be carried out.
Implication of the research:
While processing the research study, strict ethical guidelines needs to be followed within
the entire research while collecting data. While collecting information by means of primary data
it should be kept in mind that no participants will be forced to take part within the survey.
Besides that a consent form should also be signed by each of the participants so as to make sure
that the participants are participating within the survey willingly. No logos or symbol will be

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used within the survey form that can influence the participants in any way. It should be kept in
mind that the survey that would be conducted is completely based on academic purposes. In case
if any type of authorization is needed then then an authorization letter needs to be get signed
from the respective university from where the research will get conducted. As the research paper
also includes collection of data based on secondary researches hence the plagiarism issue along
with the referencing issue needs to be kept in mind. Besides maintaining the ethical
considerations, it should also be kept in mind that no norms or regulations related to the ethical
guidelines gets violated within the entire research process. The future implication of the research
based on the impression of self-driven cars on the life style of the people that will help in
determining the level of vehicle autonomy with respect to the level 0 human controlled car to
that of level 5 fully autonomous cars. As per estimation, about 1.3 million of people gets killed
annually on the roads and most of them are caused as a consequence of human error.
Implementing the self-driving cars within the lifestyle of the people will save over a million of
lives every year. Self-driving cars includes technologies with increased driving safety reducing
the overall accident rates.
Conclusion:
Thus, from the above report it can eb concluded that consumers from around the world
are getting more and more enthusiastic enough towards the development of autonomous cars and
deploying them within the public platform. An autonomous car is mainly based on the principle
of operating without the requirement of any human interventions. The modern autonomous cars
ae known to sense their local surroundings while being able to classify the presence of any
objects within their surrounding environment. With the ability of autonomous cars being
determining objects automatically, self-driving cars are designed in such a method so that they

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can automatically determine the traffic rules and operate accordingly. Considering this features,
suitable considerations are also made within the development of self driven cars while enabling
them to provide appropriate response to the most unanticipated circumstances that might not get
predicted by the unanticipated circumstances. In order to carry out successful method of
navigation in this type o situations, a combined variety of technology collecting from different
technologies of computer sciences are being applied in combination with other branches such as
mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and control engineering. Self driving cars are
predictable to bring in revolution over the overall transportation industry leading to significant
shift in to vehicular industry. In spite of all the drawbacks, the safe development of autonomous
cars is still continuing and the software functionality of the car is also developing in a rapid way
with continuous update. Though people are rejecting the use of autonomous cars in many sectors
yet the development of autonomous cars are spurring in a huge demand among the development
of electrical vehicles. When autonomous vehicles get used up through hours they can get
upfronted through battery budgets that could be communal while growing the economic
application of the electric cars. Most of the companies are focusing towards developing self-
driven cars having automated features that will help in parking and detecting any collision by
means of automated methods. Automated car system applied to cars, trucks and other vehicles,
are known to bring in huge changes along with opportunities. However, some area of concern
does exist with the performance of the self-driving cars based on the way that they are intended
to obey the traffic rules. Driverless cars are regarded as the most important and innovative stage
towards the next generation development of transportation technology.

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