Robots vs Humans Driving

Reports show that Google's self driving cars are safer than actual human driver itself. Data has been collected via two automatic self-driving cars of the Lexus and the Prius. This report came from the MIT Technology Review report. The cars has driven over 482,700 kilometers without having any accident. The software that is used shows that these cars are able to maintain a safe distance behind another car, and they brake sharply than having a human driving it themselves. These cars are able to prove that technology has been advance enough that these cars are able to run on their own and in the future we don't even need a driver for a car because everything would be automatic. Accidents did happen with the car but was caused from different drivers who bumped into the car. In August 2011 and 2010 the Google car stopped at a traffic and got bumped by a self-driving which indicates that the fault came from the humans not the automatic car. Cars are still a technology that is evolving rapidly because every year we see different looking cars that are becoming more safety, in the next 100 years cars would change completely to what we have now. Every year there is a new interface, like self-driving that will be more improved and be able to imply for everyone in the future for sure.

Major Concepts

• Google's self driving cars are safer drivers than humans.
• These cars ran a total of 482,700 km without have a single accident.
• Although the accidents are not by the software, human drivers still bumped into the car.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

The strength of this article is that it is will linked to the evidence that is supported in their statement. I'm able to click to the report that was made showing the evidence that this car really did have no accidents. The article is precise, and summarized in way that allows people around the world to understand this complex system of automatic cars and give us a warning that these types of cars will appear in the industry very soon. Overall I think that the article is very good and easy to understand.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

There are a few disadvantages in the article because the author didn't point out any disadvantages, he made me think that the software is perfect but in the reality there are still many flaws in the self-driving technology. The flaws include detecting death because the car is unable to sense humans so it won't brake. Another disadvantage is the organization of the article they bring up points that are related too far apart from each other which might set some young article readers in a stage of confusion.

Discussion Questions

I would really like to discuss if people are for or against self-driving because many people might be against it. The argument comes up again that people are starting to become lazy because of these new inventions we have everything is doing most of the things for us now, like washing our clothes before the washing machine was introduced people would waste a lot of time washing their clothes, but now the washing machine does everything for us. I against this self-driving thing because if everybody uses it there might be still errors that can happen, because nothing is perfect. People are getting out of the path where we are doing things by ourselves but technology is going to take away the ability to do things in these days. Driving is suppose to be an important skill because it teaches people to concentrate on the things around which not just only benefits on the topic but on other real world situations too. The good side of this article is that it makes life easier, but I don't agree about this point because it's getting way too easy that we don't really need to do anything, which accounts as the bad side too.

Starr, Michelle. "Google: Self-driving Cars Safer than Professional Drivers." - Cars. N.p., 28 Oct. 2013. Web. 01 Nov. 2013. <http://www.cnet.com.au/google-self-driving-cars-safer-than-professional-drivers-339345799.htm>.