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Researching the question: How will self-driving cars affect the community and the ability
to drive normal vehicles? As I researched this topic many of the people agreed that the self-
driving cars will change our community but they will have different impacts. People will still be
driving normal cars because self-driving cars arent yet in our future.

Carson, Biz. "Self-driving cars are here, but that doesn't mean you can call them
'driverless'" Business Insider. Business Insider, 18 Sept. 2016. Web. 31 Mar. 2017.

The pace at which a self-driving car went from myth to reality has caused all sorts of problems.
Years ago, we were thinking about having cruise control. We got that, now we are thinking about
self-driving, were getting that pretty soon. Every company is fighting for it and new technology is
being found. Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick called it "existential" for the company to develop its
own driverless car technology. The impacts of that will be widely felt. Merrill Lynch predicted in
a 2015 report that driverless taxis like Ubers will make up 43% of new car sales by 2040. The
Boston Consulting Group also wrote in a 2015 report that driverless taxi sales are bound to
incline. The BCG predicts that 23% of global new car sales will come from driverless taxis by
2040, which will result in a decline in vehicle ownership in cities. Before we get to driverless
though, we need to perfect self-driving.
This article is very well and trustworthy to me. It has CEOs speaking their thoughts. Also,
having different groups and research done by other companies to provide states. It says here that
even though we will have self-driving cars. They will never be truly driverless. The person behind
the wheel will still have to know whats going on and take control in certain situation. So, self-
driving cars will be in the future, yet we will still be like normal driving them.

Walker, Alissa. "Will self-driving vehicles really make cities safer?" Curbed. Curbed, 21
Sept. 2016. Web. 31 Mar. 2017

Even President Obama made the case for safety in an op-ed that heralded the dawn of our new
driverless age: Right now, too many people die on our roads35,200 last year alonewith 94
percent of those the result of human error or choice. Automated vehicles have the potential to
save tens of thousands of lives each year. And right now, for too many senior citizens and
Americans with disabilities, driving isnt an option. Automated vehicles could change their lives.
With less human-driven cars on the road it is safer. Especially if 94% of crashes are human error.
The U.S. government released its long-awaited rules on self-driving vehicles, and per the
Department of Transportation, they are poised to change the way we live. The 116-page
document lists many benefits, among them improved sustainability, productivity, and
accessibility, but the central promise is that autonomy will pave the way for policies that
dramatically improve road safety.
Using the government and president Obama as references really improved this articles
truth. By adding statistics and already planning the future of our cities I agree. This article states
that self-driving cars will be coming. But there is much time in between that and right now. It
does have its benefits of making our world safer.

Overly, Steven. "The unexpected ways our lives will change when cars drive themselves."
The Washington Post. WP Company, 05 Apr. 2017. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.

The switch over will have some effects no one thought of. At least thats the view of Benedict
Evans, a longtime tech observer and partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen
Horowitz. Fewer truckers will be impacted than expected because the drivers are getting old and
the new generation doesnt want to drive, letting the self-driving cars take over. Traffic
congestion could actually get worse, because people will be able to go anywhere and not waste
time driving. But doing something on a road trip as they go somewhere new. Cars can bear
witness to crime, something that will greatly help us out because the cars will have cameras.
Catching crime will be a lot easier. An autonomous car is a moving panopticon, Evans writes.
They might not be saving and uploading every part of that data. But they could be. The self-
driving cars will help us out in the long run, less money will be put into them because less chance
of crashing. Also, time consuming because we dont need parking spots, they are a shared car and
will move on after you leave. Something will happen, and probably something big, Evan states.
Its coming, its all a matter of time.
Steven uses very valid reasons why he believes the ways itll change. Also by quoting and
using a tech observer from Silicon Valley gives him the credibility. In this article, I agree that the
changes will be dramatic and they are coming. But the fact of where Evans says something will
happen in other words, its only time and many dont want to wait.

Noguchi, Yuki. "Self-Driving Cars Raise Questions About Who Carries Insurance." NPR.
NPR, 03 Apr. 2017. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.

Since a lot more autonomous vehicles are getting on the road, the question about insurance raises
up. Whos supposed to insure the vehicles if anything happens? Whose fault would it be?
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, whose company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns the insurance
giant Geico, told CNBC in a February interview: "If the day comes when a significant portion of
the cars on the road are autonomous, it will hurt Geico's business very significantly." Makes sense
since no one driving no more. This will hurt many insurance companies. A driverless car changes
that model, shifting the insurance toward automakers, and away from drivers or car owners. Its
all on the automakers now to have protecting and insurance for their own vehicles. Walker Smith,
a law professor at the University of South Carolina says one of the biggest obstacles for insurers
is a lack of data. We cant be asking these questions yet because we dont have enough
information.
I like this article because this is a serious question if self-driving cars will rule this
country. Its very credibly because of the fact how it uses important figures like Geico and
professor and different societies. I trust this article and agree with the question. Yet the article yet
again relies on time to answer the question. People will still drive normal cars because to figure
out the whole self-driving world will take time and patience. What many people of these roads
dont have.

Burguete, Leopoldo, Andrew Cullison, Peper Langhout, Summer Pappachen, Daniel Beck,
Pamela J.Hobart, and Amy Brown. "Do Driverless Cars Infringe on Personal
Freedom?" The Prindle Post. N.p., 01 Nov. 2016. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.

Imagine sitting in a darker cabin with four wheels on it. No steering wheel or anything. Just four
seats and a screen showing you the remaining time to your destination. However, you are calm
for the entire process. As a matter of fact, you have become used to it; you trust the cars
programming, which is the only thing stopping them from crashing into each other. This is what
its going to be like when the autonomous cars hit the streets. Google has developed its own self-
driving car project as well. In a review of his experience riding in a Google car, The Oatmeal, a
comics artist, highlights the positive impact that automated driving can have in improving the
lives of people with disabilities, and its ability to save lives: self-driving cars learn from other and
are less likely than humans to commit mistakes or become distracted. Insights from The Oatmeal
after the review stated it raises a challenging and recurring moral question: does the collective
good have the right to infringe on the liberties of the individual? Despite of your stance on self-
driving cars, a cultural shift in America will emerge, and with it, a national debate on individual
freedom.
This article is really good at showing you what will happen, what its going to feel like
and be like. It gains it trust from using Google as a source, since we all know Google and their
attempts at the self-driving car. Yet nobody really knows The Oatmeal, therefore its in the middle
for credibility. Enough though to use it as a source. I agreed that once the self-driving cars hit the
streets, people will either get used to the fact they lost their freedom, or they will fight against it
and not sit in them. Drive the normal cars because it gives you the emotion and freedom of
driving. Not being a robot of computerized feeling.

Moor, Robert. "Is the Self-Driving Car Un-American?" Select All. N.p., 16 Oct. 2016. Web.
05 Apr. 2017.

Because driverless cars are programmed to never break traffic laws, they will never go more than
ten miles over the speed limit, even when youre rushing to the hospital and your daughters face
is turning blue. You will never take a turn a little too hard, causing that little droopy feeling in
your gut. You will never do doughnuts, never peel out, never gun your engine. The shared
experience of American adolescence much of it spent in cars. Our notion of cars as freedom
machines is almost as old as the technology itself. President Obama remarked that in the seven
and a half years he has been in office, the self-driving car has gone from being a sci-fi fantasy to
an emerging reality with the potential to transform the way we live. And a famous Novelist J. G.
Ballard wrote in 1971, I would pick a familiar everyday sight: a man in a motor car, driving
along a concrete highway to some unknown destination. Almost every aspect of modern life is
there, both for good and for ill our sense of speed, drama, and aggression, the worlds of
advertising and consumer goods, engineering and mass-manufacture, and the shared experience
of moving together through an elaborately signaled landscape. These here show that we as
Americans took pride and power being able to drive our vehicles. It was considered as an
American thing to do, drive a normal car and have fun with it. The emotion and feelings of
actually being behind the wheel. Self-driving cars do not comprehend with the American view of
cars.
I agree with this article. It is probably the strongest and most sources article I have yet
researched. With so much valuable information and using sources like presidents, famous people,
the American image for the car. This article states that the self-driving cars are not American. It
will take that pride and will from us. Itll take our freedom away to choose and decide what we
want to do. Something like I and many others will not allow it to happen. We want our freedom
and feelings.

Alexa Delbosc Lecturer in Transport, Monash University. "A future world full of driverless
cars...seriously?!" The Conversation. N.p., 9 Oct. 2016. Web. 11 Apr. 2017.

If only we could eliminate the human factor, we would have cities teeming with safe, efficient
cars whizzing us to our destinations. Right? Wrong. For better or worse, as long as there are
humans in the transport system we cannot ignore the human factor. The self-driving car doesnt
think like human, but it needs too. How does it know if a pedestrian standing near the zebra
crossing is waiting to cross or chatting on the phone? Another factor is making the humans
comply, not all will want the automation cars, and therefore we will always have normal cars out
there. No more car ownership, since the cars will be shared it will affect economy. Are you
supposed to car the car seat around after your trip? Lastly this will threaten the jobs of people
who truck, buses and or taxies will all be affected. Losing economy and changing our society.
Something we as humans dont like, change.
 I like how this article points out the facts and ideas that not many of us would even
think of. Yet they back it up using research like the 2011 Australian Census, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration. This gives them the credibility and support to trust the article. I
like the fact that in other words it said that this will be a change, and we as people dont like to be
changed. Something I find very useful in my argument the people will still drive normal cars.

LaFrance, Adrienne. "Will Pedestrians Be Able to Tell What a Driverless Car Is About to
Do?" The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 30 Aug. 2016. Web. 11 Apr. 2017.

How will self-driving vehicles communicate with human drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists? A
driverless car just cant communicate with humans all the way, they need eye contact, or the
waving of a hand at an intersectionwhich a machine cant precisely emulate. We learn from
birth how to communicate with other people, but communicating with machines is a very
different skill. We need to make sure the displays and signals work as intended before we release
them. said Michael Clamann, a roboticist at Duke and one of the lead authors of the paper.
Another quote People hate ambiguity and unpredictability, said Chris Rockwell, the CEO and
founder of Lextant, a design consulting firm. I dont care if its your toaster or your car; if youre
confused, youre not having a great experience. And if it acts in strange or unpredictable ways,
its not acceptable. The whole point is, that since humans are still at play, we can never truly
understand and communicate between the cars and the people. No communication and
understanding will cause the humans to reject the self-driving cars.
One of my favorite articles because it has such a strong standpoint and valid reasoning
to prove that the self-driving car will affect the community and the people wont like it, for fact
they might just stick to same old regular. Using engineers and roboticist, CEOs and University
research groups as their sources and back up. They gained my trust and I see their viewpoint and
how useful it is to me.

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