4 Reasons Why You May Love Self-Driving Cars

Presently, you know what is called assisted driving. Car manufacturers now have unique features that help drivers navigate urban and rural roads. They provide driving assistance such as reliable GPS technology, impeccable and sharp cameras, forward-facing radar units, a sort of radio waves detecting speed around the car, navigation maps, and more.

With effective Google maps, you can even drive to strange places without missing a turn, especially in well-known or digitalized cities.

A blind man was chauffeured by a fully driverless car in the previous decade. He sat in the car, and he got around in the car without an accident. This was a man legally blind, Steve Mahan. He was also the first non-Google employee to ride in Google's parent company, Waymo One.

There is another video online. The guy went miles in a car that drove itself. It is a video by Derek Muller, a content creator at Veritasium, who rode in the vehicle through Arizona.

4 Reasons Why You May Love Self-driving Cars

Different car manufacturing brands are securing the future of driverless cars. Top the list, you'd say, is Mercedes Benz, Tesla, and other big names. There are also startups such as Google's Waymo, General Motors' Cruise, TuSimple, Aurora, and others, even in China. Why would you like driverless cars, even when many believe it's not safe?

Driving Is Stressful

There is no question about the stress that comes with driving, especially if you're driving long-distance. Why else would drivers love to take short breaks while going? You can't stretch in a car while on the move; you can't take a break until you hit your brakes and park by the roadside. Driving is stressful, and it's the same for experienced drivers. It doesn't matter that some of them feel the stress only once in a while.

Traffic jams, long driving distances, construction, congestion on the road, reckless drivers, and sometimes loneliness all contribute to stress while driving. With self-driving cars, you don't need to sit behind the wheel doing all the work. Imagine how easy that could be.

If you're going on a long-distance journey, all you'll need to do is sit in your car, get on your seat belt, and watch technology do the magic as it has been programmed.

It's Only Hands off the Wheel; Your Eyes are Still on the Road

It's not easy to trust a driverless car. If you're a fan of car sports races, some drivers don't trust their brakes too. We viewers can't blame them — if you're going flat out at 160 mph or 220 mph, it's easy to be skeptical that the brake will fail you at the sharp corner, especially if you've been flatting the car for long.

For driverless cars, the same skepticism can occur.

This is why you're behind the wheel, but your hands and legs are not busy. You can remove your hand from the wheels and still keep your eyes on the road. The car controls itself: the pedal, the acceleration, the speed, the brakes; it controls itself. The vehicle drives you; you are the passenger in your car.

Some say the technology is not yet reliable, which is why you still need to have your eyes on the road. However, you have cameras and radars around your car. You can see everything, the street, the alarms, the buzzes and screams of engines; you can hear them just as your car can perceive and understand them. These are the information self-driving cars take into account to work efficiently.

You're in a Car That Understands Its Environment

Mercedes Benz has already created cars that gather information from the environment and act on it. However, a specific car may not function for different countries, thanks to their different road shapes, sizes, and road turns. The roads in Germany are different from the American roads. The roads in the UK are also different from Berlin's or Beijing's.

Driverless cars are embedded with software that helps them understand the environment. They know, for instance, that the first to stop at traffic is the first to move. In case of accidents, the cars sensor hostilities, and they're programmed to maneuver them. Don't forget, your car still has the wheel. You need to trust the car to be the driver while you are the passenger behind the wheel. It's tricky, Yas! Thanks to maps and technology, many cars understand their way around. They are also learning traffic conditions which vary from time to time. If you believe your gadgets can hear your voice, if Alexei and other intelligent response software make your life easier, driverless cars are the next big thing that should excite you.

Feel Safer on the Road

There are thousands of accidents every year. These accidents are not caused by cars; drivers cause them. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) noted that driver error is the primary cause of accidents. There are miscalculations in speed, errors of judgment, and some even drive drunk or actively use their phones while driving. Driverless cars will make both roads and people safer for everyone— accidents would no longer be a tragic reality but a rare nightmare.

This makes life more bearable, and it will even improve daily commuting. As a car owner, you can charge your phone, look into the eyes of your lover, and do other things while your car goes at a 65 mph speed without fear of an accident. You'll create moments while traveling on a lane that, until self-driving cars become a reality, was dangerous.

Final Words

Well, there are still a few challenging issues. For instance, some roads have no uniform road signs or stop lights. There are a few other issues. Top of the list is cyber hacking, meaning that hackers may hijack a car or cars, leading to chaos.

However, as always, technology finds ways to answer human problems. It will evolve from this phase to a perfect one. After all, in 1885, the automobile Karl Benz invented was perfect until he took it for a test drive and crashed it into a wall. But it was the start of something incredible; it was the genesis of all the inventions seen today.