Have you ever imagined what the future would be like if you didn’t have to drive yourself to work. Wouldn’t it be cool if whenever you got into your car all you had to do was push a couple of buttons and the car took you anywhere you wanted to go. Well those dreams are becoming a reality because the tech company Google has started testing self driving cars. The future, for some, would be great because they wouldn’t have to worry about driving to work on Monday morning. For other’s it wouldn’t be so great because they live in rural areas and the car would probably start to freak out on a country road.
Both of these passages talk about cars driving by themselves without hardly any human interaction that has to do with driving themselves. The article from Newsela states that even though these vehicles can drive themselves their will be a human trained in what they will need to do if …show more content…
They also talk about the dangers of a self-driving car because the vehicle couldn’t tell the difference between a piece of paper floating around in the wind and a person. There is also mentioned that these cars will not overlook a law even if overlooking that law means crossing the double yellow line to save a person’s life. I also think that they mentioned that technology is never perfect, moreso, for a self-driving car because the computers that run them are going to be exposed to extreme heat and extreme cold and they will be put through a lot more stress than the computer that you use in your office everyday. These cars are not going to be safe because they are going to fail at some point in time and a lot more often than a computer at home because the computer in the car that runs it could be sitting outside in 20 degree weather and go from 20 degrees to 112 degrees or more in just a few minutes and computers like that are not used to going from that cold to that hot or hotter that
Both of these passages talk about cars driving by themselves without hardly any human interaction that has to do with driving themselves. The article from Newsela states that even though these vehicles can drive themselves their will be a human trained in what they will need to do if …show more content…
They also talk about the dangers of a self-driving car because the vehicle couldn’t tell the difference between a piece of paper floating around in the wind and a person. There is also mentioned that these cars will not overlook a law even if overlooking that law means crossing the double yellow line to save a person’s life. I also think that they mentioned that technology is never perfect, moreso, for a self-driving car because the computers that run them are going to be exposed to extreme heat and extreme cold and they will be put through a lot more stress than the computer that you use in your office everyday. These cars are not going to be safe because they are going to fail at some point in time and a lot more often than a computer at home because the computer in the car that runs it could be sitting outside in 20 degree weather and go from 20 degrees to 112 degrees or more in just a few minutes and computers like that are not used to going from that cold to that hot or hotter that