Driverless Cars: 2 Interesting Articles

Driverless Car Poll Finds Canadians Almost Evenly Split On Issue

 

 

 

 

 

This driverless Mercedes concept car was spotted on the streets of California in 2015. (Photo: Daimler AG)

If there was still any doubt that driverless cars are happening, the news coming out of the world's automakers this week ought to put it to rest.

Kanetix commissioned a poll to find out whether Canadians are ready to give up driving and jump into the driverless car world. The poll found Canadians are about as undecided on the issue, collectively, as you can be on any issue.

Read more about it in this Huffington Post article: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/09/driverless-car-poll-canada_n_8940228.html

Here's a quote from another interesting article on the subject of driverless cars and related ethical questions:

"The year is 2035. The world’s population is 9 billion. The polar ice caps have totally melted and Saudi Arabia has run out of oil. Will Smith is battling murderous robots. Matt Damon is stranded on Mars. Dippin’ Dots is finally the ice cream of the present.

You’re humming along in your self-driving car, chatting on your iPhone 37 while the machine navigates on its own. Then a swarm of people appears in the street, right in the path of the oncoming vehicle.

There’s a calculation to be made — avoid the crowd and crash the owner, or stay on track and take many lives — and no one is at the wheel to make it. Except, of course, the car itself."

Read the whole article, here: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/09/driverless-car-poll-canada_n_8940228.html