In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people travelling inside these vehicles will be passengers. Do you think the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages?

In the era of extensive research on

driverless

technology

,

people

have more or less an understanding of unmanned driving. Currently,

driverless

vehicles are being put into trial in China, and some achievements have been made on the prescribed roads. It seems to me that

although

there is no question that self-driving vehicles could be an enormous benefit， the demerits of the application of

driverless

overshadow its merits at present.

First

of all, the use of

driverless

cars may exert several social problems. On the one hand, the popularity of autopilot will inevitably make professional drivers lose their jobs by driving business vehicles. It is because that a self-driving lorry without faults can operate continuously and ensure safety for 24 hours， which mean it can produce multiple benefits that human driving is hard to achieve.

On the other hand

,

driverless

has

also

greatly increased car ownership.

In other words

, according to the characteristics of autopilot, some

people

who do not have the driving ability may

also

have

this

kind of transportation. The number of cars will increase substantially, but

this

is not always a good thing，which may bring some other problems,

such

as parking spaces will become more intense.

Second

, the popularity of

driverless

also

has great potential risks. Autopilot is more like a robot, which is controlled by established procedures and AI chips. For all automated systems, there is always a risk of hacking or crashing because of faults or bugs ，by which I mean if hackers can enter the vehicle system, and the car may be controlled to do anything.

Moreover

, after the accident, it is difficult for us to determine the responsible party of the accident, so that the victims cannot get due compensation. There is no denying that

driverless

applications can save lives. According to statistics, 90% of road traffic accidents are caused by human errors, including the proportion of distraction, fatigue, drunk driving and speeding. A total of 1 million 300 thousand

people

are killed every year in the world, with 60 thousand

people

in China alone, but the self-driving vehicle will eliminate all the accidents caused by human error factors, which will greatly reduce the incidence of accidents.

However

, all

this

needs to be built on the basis of the

technology

improvement of the

driverless

car itself and its supporting system equipment,

such

as cameras, navigation, etc.,

otherwise

,

driverless

driving will bring disaster to

people

. In conclusion, at present, unmanned driving

technology

still has more drawbacks than benefits，but if the government and related

technology

research and development can make

further

efforts, we believe that

this

technology

can be effectively applied in the future. After all, unmanned driving is the

first

step for human beings to move towards the AI era.