Argumentative Essay On Self-Driven Cars

My body jolted, my skin became hot, and my heartbeat skipped; once I realized what happened, my heart dropped. A few years ago, my dad hit a deer who wandered into the road on our way to a club soccer tournament in South Dakota. We took a back road, as we heard that it was a shortcut and we’d have a little more time to sleep before my big game in the morning. My mom shrieked as she looked back to check on me and my little brother. Although my dad attempted to swerve to miss the deer, he didn’t see it in time and ended up clipping it with the car’s left headlight. Physically, we were all fine; mentally, however, we were stunned and my mom, a natural worrier, was grateful that we were not physically hurt. The accident, although small, scared me, but taught me how to be a safe and defensive driver.
When I was younger, I thought that I would grow up in a time with flying cars, teleportation machines, and …show more content…
Why couldn’t this be the case with computer driven cars? The self-driving cars have an interior designed for people to ride in, not drive. A possible emergency while the driver is thinking they are safe leads me to believe the cars are impractical. I speculate that Google thought of this and may have some kind of emergency brake, button, etc. that they did not list on their website, however, if I were to be in a driverless car on a long trip, I believed the vehicle to be completely safe, and trusted it enough to drive me to my destination, why wouldn’t I decide to sleep, do homework, be on my cell phone or tablet, watch a movie or something else distracting? Let’s face it, the reason we all idolize the idea of self-driving cars is so we can do other things that consume our busy day instead of spending the time commuting staring at a road and listening to the morning radio show. Relieving the burden of driving upon our everyday lives sounds heavenly, but