Bilger, Burkhard. "Has the Self-Driving Car Arrived at Last?" The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2013
Burkard, a two-time winner of The National Magazine awards writes a thought provoking article about the possibility of an accident and delay free commute made reality by a ground breaking invention, Google’s driverless car. This revolutionary idea stemmed from Google X, a semi-secret lab for experimental technologies. Burkhard states that someday a self-driving car may “save your life” (par7) as Americans drive nearly three trillion miles annually with statistics revealing that of those many miles traveled, ten million motor vehicle accidents will occur and 95% of the collisions would be the fault of human error. Bilger says that for every accident the happens, a thousand more would have been avoided by a manual driver’s ability to anticipate danger, pace, direction, and momentum. Burkhard has a s strong opinion about the average driver and states that “human beings are terrible drivers” (par1) who become easily distracted, doing everything else in the car but driving. In fact, here in the USA distracted drivers have been the cause of so many accidents a …show more content…
With the introduction of a self-driving, self- navigating Google car the passengers will be traveling with “no traffic…….no collisions…no driver” (par10), this means that humans will be in trusting their safety and
Burkard, a two-time winner of The National Magazine awards writes a thought provoking article about the possibility of an accident and delay free commute made reality by a ground breaking invention, Google’s driverless car. This revolutionary idea stemmed from Google X, a semi-secret lab for experimental technologies. Burkhard states that someday a self-driving car may “save your life” (par7) as Americans drive nearly three trillion miles annually with statistics revealing that of those many miles traveled, ten million motor vehicle accidents will occur and 95% of the collisions would be the fault of human error. Bilger says that for every accident the happens, a thousand more would have been avoided by a manual driver’s ability to anticipate danger, pace, direction, and momentum. Burkhard has a s strong opinion about the average driver and states that “human beings are terrible drivers” (par1) who become easily distracted, doing everything else in the car but driving. In fact, here in the USA distracted drivers have been the cause of so many accidents a …show more content…
With the introduction of a self-driving, self- navigating Google car the passengers will be traveling with “no traffic…….no collisions…no driver” (par10), this means that humans will be in trusting their safety and