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Approximately 33,000 Americans are killed in automobile wrecks each year in this country according to federal statistics.
In May, the first fatality of a driver operating a self-driving car was reported. Suddenly the sky was falling. Tesla, the manufacturer of the car involved in the accident, saw its stock plummet. The anti self-driving crowd immediately jumped on the news and took to the airwaves and social media to question the safety of driverless vehicle technology. With a week, several federal agencies had already launched formal investigations into the fatal accident.
The unfortunate death, to which blame was spread evenly between the driver and the car?s technology flaw, coupled with several accidents with Google cars, is only a bump in the road for the driverless car future. Like or not, there are too many advantages with driverless cars to let a few problems derail the industry.
Officially known as autonomous vehicles (AVs), every major automobile company and some private, start-up Silicon Valley funded companies like Tesla are engaged in a race to get their share of the self-driving car market,
Three major benefits of self-driving cars and how they will change the future are:
Environment Friendly
As the number of AVs in the road increase, there should be a large reduction in both pollution and the usage of valuable non-renewable resources. When perfected, fully elect...