Question

Please write down your response after reading the paragraph. (At least 5 sentences long. 150-200 words)

In my point of view, I believe that driverless car will definitely be the trend of technological development. Meanwhile, 100 percent security will be the target for all related companies. If those cars are mixed into human driven cars in the future, the outcome will be horrible. Even if the technique is well developed, the traffic in the real society is not expectable. There will be so many uncontrollable factors. For example, some pedestrians probably will not walk through zebra crossing, and driverless car must have the ability to deal with corresponding situation.

Moreover, driverless cars will probably meet the situation of ethical dilemma, like what was said in the video. “Kill the passenger or five pedestrians”, it is a difficult question and there will be much more similar questions like this. The people who should be thinking this problem are designers of driverless car, and then they just need to input it as a program into the car. From the ethical aspect, it is better to sacrifice one life for saving five more lives. However, humans are selfish. If I am the passenger, I rather let those five pedestrians die, because I don’t wanna die and I believe most people will have the same idea as me.

Answer 1

Driverless car are certainly a technological advance and has many benefits human can avail out of it. However it has to be understood that it works on theoretical model of traffic. But do all people follow traffic ?? Ans is certainly No. Many people donot use zebra crossing and driverless car are not equiped to deal such unexpected but real situation. This was the case when a pedestrian was killed by a driverless car , in first of kind incident. There are many other problems like this that will come to the forefront slowly and gradually which would need to be incorporated in the programming system, otherwise, these cars will losse their importance and utility.
Moreover, there might be the situation when either of two lives or group of lives can be saved. It happens today with men driven cars too. Men driven cars have driver who take the decision based on instinct while automatic cars will have to take a decision based on the algorithm written in the programme. The question is whether the maker of a driverless car would give preference to the passenger in car or will be neutral. It seems highly unlikely that passenger in car will not be given the advantage, even if his life can be saved by taking lives of 10 others.