2.

2 Benefits of self-driving cars

It can be clarified that inventing autonomous vehicles has brought up a lot of benefits for the
world through five aspects, including health, environment, money and time, resources and
productivity. One of the primary profits of “driveless” vehicles is protecting human’s life.
Nowadays, 94% of car accidents[ CITATION Ber20 \l 1033 ] recorded are relevant to driver’s
mistakes and 40% of them mainly occurred due to overusing alcoholic drinks when driving
[ CITATION Lyn \l 1033 ]. As a result, appearance of self-driving cars contributed to curbing this
problem, which was verified by the research of the Eno center that per annum, 4.2 million
automobile crashes would be prevented; 21,700 people would be saved and more than $400
billion in related costs would be rejected (cited in Bell, n.d.). Moreover, Lyndon Bell (n.d.)
notices that these vehicles can improve movement of sensitive people when attending traffic
network such as children, the elderly and the disabled.
Besides, self-driving vehicles improve significantly nagging environmental problems as traffic
congestion, air pollution and abuse of resources. Similarly automobile crashes, the key agent of
traffic jam is also human’s consciousness[ CITATION via191 \l 1033 ]. When people are in traffic,
they often tend to rush and occupy the spaces on the road as soon as possible and Lyndon Bell
(n.d.) notes that if anyone don’t let others pass, conflicts can be broken out among them and,
after that, traffic problems will be more and more exacerbated. Therefore, when self-driving cars
were released, people no longer have to drive and these automobiles connect each other into a
network, stay away unworthy conflicts when driving and, ever since, reduce dramatically traffic
congestion (cited in via.com, 2019). Furthermore, Bernard Marr (2020) predicts that if almost
“driveless” vehicles use electric or hybrid energy and drive more efficiently than human,
emissions will be restricted considerably. After that, Marr (2020) cites the study of Davis in the
University of California that if self-driving cars are electric and shared, the vehicles can ease the
global warming and decrease CO2 emissions up to 80 percent by 2050. Along with that
automated vehicles will be run by electricity, although the cars maybe still partially use gasoline,
overusing of fuel will be reduced substantially and air contamination as well as global climate
change will be also curbed in the future (cited in via.com, 2019).
Last, these vehicles also create some advantages for several other aspects. For instance,
today, one of the most nagging problems in the big cities is seeking for parking and with using
self-driving cars, people can travel to everywhere they want in the cities without the worry for
wasting far to much time for hunting the park; following that, the need for it will be limited; and
the scene of cities may be more agreeable [ CITATION Lyn \l 1033 ]. Moreover, Bell (n.d.) also
notices that because of fewer car accidents, manufacturers maybe remove some safe gizmos
from vehicles, which will make these cars lighter and more flexible. In addition, automated
vehicles can save a lot of money through cutting down costs caused by car crashes and salary
paying for traffic controller because driving becomes more safety[ CITATION Lyn \l 1033 ]. And,
using these vehicles also increases dramatically human’s productivity and husbands a great
amount of time for people. They can work or entertain by reading a book, listening to music,
seeing a film while the car is self-running and feel interesting life through windows of the car
while it is self-running safely [ CITATION Lyn \l 1033 ].

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