Autonomous Cars: What is Their Place in Society? “I’d start walking your way, you’d start walking mine. We’d meet in the middle, ‘neath that old Georgia pine”. Most arguments have a far right and far left. They both shout their opinions and very little ever gets done, and just the ole country song from Diamond Rio, the best solutions are very close to the middle and driverless cars are no different. Many people have been huge proponents of driverless cars ever since they gained momentum from google. Some people say that everyone should still be driving manuals. You have your old time people that will never let anything go no matter what, and those people that always want the latest and greatest thing no matter how much it costs. Although the
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This is why some countries question us as a whole. Articles from overseas state that Americans are obsessed with their guns, muscle cars, football, and apple pie. This is because Americans are fundamentally different from other nations. Since our beginning, we as a nation have had to fight for everything we have had from our land to our freedoms to our right as a nation. We fought the British for our independence. We fought native tribes for natural resources and territories. Whether you agree with the methods or not, you can’t argue Americans don’t back down quietly. This is why I see a very large disconnect from the technology community to the people if these products were to actually come to fruition. Many Americans will not be okay with giving up their freedom of picking a vehicle, the ability of owning a vehicle, and the freedom of driving wherever and whenever they choose, especially people of rural communities. If you examine the best-selling vehicles of 2015, the top three are pickup trucks, the F-150, Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra twins, and the Ram 1500. Americans love to be able to do things as they want to. Whether that means hauling the basketballs to the kids practice to hauling all the gear for a weekend full of camping. Americans love capability. Look at the muscle car segment, these cars sell hundreds of thousands of cars every year. These cars have way more power and capability then any passenger car would ever need. That’s because many Americans have a big attachment to their cars, especially cars that seem like they can do everything (or at least look cool trying to do it). Many people growing up could not wait to turn 16 years old. They would take their driving test, and they would be legal to drive a car for the first time. This to me was an enormous symbol of freedom, as
This is why some countries question us as a whole. Articles from overseas state that Americans are obsessed with their guns, muscle cars, football, and apple pie. This is because Americans are fundamentally different from other nations. Since our beginning, we as a nation have had to fight for everything we have had from our land to our freedoms to our right as a nation. We fought the British for our independence. We fought native tribes for natural resources and territories. Whether you agree with the methods or not, you can’t argue Americans don’t back down quietly. This is why I see a very large disconnect from the technology community to the people if these products were to actually come to fruition. Many Americans will not be okay with giving up their freedom of picking a vehicle, the ability of owning a vehicle, and the freedom of driving wherever and whenever they choose, especially people of rural communities. If you examine the best-selling vehicles of 2015, the top three are pickup trucks, the F-150, Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra twins, and the Ram 1500. Americans love to be able to do things as they want to. Whether that means hauling the basketballs to the kids practice to hauling all the gear for a weekend full of camping. Americans love capability. Look at the muscle car segment, these cars sell hundreds of thousands of cars every year. These cars have way more power and capability then any passenger car would ever need. That’s because many Americans have a big attachment to their cars, especially cars that seem like they can do everything (or at least look cool trying to do it). Many people growing up could not wait to turn 16 years old. They would take their driving test, and they would be legal to drive a car for the first time. This to me was an enormous symbol of freedom, as