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  • Essay / Negative Effects of Self-Driving Cars - 707

    It may be difficult to see where the self-driving car could have safety issues, but an interesting question arises when an accident is inevitable. The question asked is: "How should the car be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable accident?" Should it minimize the loss of human life, even if it means sacrificing the occupants, or should it protect the occupants at all costs? Should he choose at random between these extremes? (ArXiv). This is a very interesting question regarding ethics. I'm not sure there is a good answer to this question, which could cripple the autonomous car industry. Before self-driving cars can be mass-produced, a solution to the issue of unavoidable accidents must be found. Although this question is problematic, it may not need to be addressed. It is estimated that "driver errors are considered the leading cause of more than 90% of all accidents", drunk driving, distracted drivers, failure to stay in a lane and falls for giving way being the main causes. » (Keating). Self-driving cars could eliminate these problems altogether and perhaps, if all cars on the road were self-driving cars, there would be no “unavoidable accidents”. Safety is the main problem that the self-driving car is trying to solve in transportation and seems to be doing a good job in this area..