A brief review of the next generation of self-driving cars
Introduction
Driverless cars or autonomous cars have major popularity. Tech Companies such as Tesla Google and Apple invest billions of dollars to develop autonomous vehicle technologies.
Driverless cars now are used in many countries in the world. And also China has a taxi system ** in some cities.
There are surveys that ask people what they think about driverless cars
Let’s look at some of them
In a 2011 online survey of 2,006 US and UK consumers, 49% said they would be comfortable using a “driverless car”
In a 2016 US survey of 1,584 people, “66 percent of respondents said they think Autonomous cars are probably smarter than the average human driver”.
In 2022, a survey reported that only a quarter (27%) of the world’s population would feel safe in self-driving cars.[256]
In 2024, a study by Saravanos et al.[257] at New York University reported that 87% of their respondents (from a sample of 358) believed that conditionally automated cars (at Level 3) would be easy to use.
So you these are the opinions of people. What do you think?
This article is written to answer questions of you . I give you information that will help you to evaluate your thoughts and to make a decision “should ı use driverless cars”
There are pros and cons ı will give you each of them with reason
Pros of Automated cars
Drivers who obey traffic rules
Autonomous cars obey the rules and reduce human error in road
tons of traffic accidents caused by human error and accident
You know autonomus cars use artificial intelligence and this technology is programmable.
Engineers programs cars to behave more gently in traffic.
they may not drive too fast.
they respects traffic rules than some bad behavior drivers
AI can increase efficiency
Autonomus car can commicate each others and they can manage traffic density .
These car can use maps in cloud sytems and make their decision such as which way ı should go etc.
This may be good to control traffic jam and enhance driver or passenger better chance to travelling
Fuel Efficiency is crucial to reduce excessive energy consumption
Cars can optimize routes and reduce unnecessary idling
Accessibility
Elderly and disabled people come across many transportation problems.
They may not drive a car . So self-drive car can solve this problem
door-to-door service can solve parking problems and also they make easy to travelling.
Economic Benefits
using a car without ownership may enhance several advantages to driver .
You do not need buy any car you can just use autonomus car service that copmanies provide
This help many people because it would be good that do not thing anything
how to park a car
how to refuel the car is there any gas station ?
This would be economic especially for driver
autonomus car may arise business opportunities.
There are companies like tesla and uber that think driverless taxi service
frankly now there are cities that apply or think to apply driverless taxi service
these autnomus technologies may cause innovation.
and these innovations may lead billion dollars
entrepreneurship
Environmental Benefits
optimazing routes and connecting cars reduce overusing cars
this may enhance lower emision.
Many automated cars are electric cars. They are not using petroleum fuel.
It is a chance that reduce energy consumption
Cons of Automated Cars
automated cars may be future and healty for many angles
but there are still some problems for this. ı made a list that explain all problems about these driverless cars
Safety Concerns
Tesla is known that invest autoplot cars technologies. and They make vehicle that has self-drive tech. in this theverge article tesla to be accused to cause hundreds of crashed and and many of deaths
This is a challenge for a compnay that manufacture self-drive cars.
It still stands a massive problems for safety concerns about automated cars.
Risk of software bugs and sibersecurity problems are other problems. Cars’ software may encounter hacking and siber attack problems.
This is a big problem for users.
Job Displacement
Of course you know there are millions of people worldwide make money for their life are drivers.
Self-driving technology very likely take their jobs.
This is a horrible stuation for this people. How they can find a new job. This problem must be solved otherwise we come across huge unemployment problem.
These people need Retraining programs. because their jobs are the displaced from automation technology.
Ethical and Legal Issues
if we use self-drive car We delegate decision-making authority to it.
This may cause some Ethical problems.
Decision-making is crucial when cars makin an accident or similar things . this ai technology can make decision but conclusion may horrible. How it can select true one .
And then consequences of this desicion .
Which one will be responsible, the company or the driver?
Infrastructure Requirements
Automated cars need huge investment in infrastructure.
These smart cars need comphrensive infrastructure systems
for examle smart traffic signals and dedicated lanes
You must be ready to invest in expensive infrastructure to integrate the smart driver system.
Also, Urban Planning is important to integrate automated car technology in the city.
You may change some city roads, building and neighborhood
Privacy Concerns
This ai self-drive technologies can collect tons of data. And companies that enhance this software may misuse these data.
This may cause problems of data privacy and surveillance.
Initial High Costs
Automated Vehicles are so expensive to produce. So buyers have to pay more than other cars. This may be challenging to customers who want switch to self-drive cars.
These cars is made with high technology. and the construction and repair of these high-tech vehicles are much more expensive