Safety of self driving EV’s

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Safety of self driving EV’sStarted by Wesley JoyceThe debate centers on the safety, ethics, and societal impact of self-driving electric vehicles. Proponents argue that automation can reduce human error, improve road safety, and alleviate urban congestion, while critics highlight the ethical dilemmas of algorithmic decision-making and the current limitations of AI in handling unpredictable human behavior.

Road safety would significantly improve if vehicles were equipped with self-driving technology and the ability to communicate with each other because machines are more precise and less prone to human error.

Self-driving vehicles that can communicate with one another can reduce urban congestion and parking pressure by allowing cars to drop off passengers and park in remote locations.

Self-driving vehicles can be programmed to use 'light bumps' or aggressive maneuvers to prevent pedestrians from intentionally exploiting the vehicle's safety protocols.

The development of self-driving vehicles presents a significant ethical and safety risk because it requires the programming of algorithms to make 'valuation' judgments on human life during unavoidable accident scenarios.

Current self-driving technology may not yet be capable of reacting to unpredictable human errors with the same nuance as a human driver.

Experimenting with electric and self-driving vehicle technologies is a necessary step forward for transportation research, even if those specific technologies are not yet perfectly viable.

The widespread automation of transportation and other sectors will lead to a societal shift where humans become overly reliant on AI, resulting in a loss of personal agency and a decline in human productivity and well-being.

So two years ago when I was taking English, I wrote and did my final project on this, and it's something I've really thought about ever since. And you really don't hear much about it. A lot of the news around electric vehicles now is dominated by rare earth minerals and the mining practices and the sustainability of it and you know how hard it is. You know, Elon likes to talk about like he's mentioned how he wants to write books about you know the the troubles of manufacturing, how you can have an idea, but trying to you know mass produce something is really hard. So obviously we're in the…Safety of self driving EV’s