The Driverless Car

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The driverless car

The self-driving car makes use of novel technology to take rid of the need for human intervention in driving the vehicle. Finally, the driverless vehicle would lead to the full automation of the riding experience, thereby letting the vehicles to drive without the need of the comportment of the driver of the car. Sophisticated advancement in digital image processing enables embedded computers to gather data from the surrounding and convert it commands and implementations for the necessary procedure (Riley 200).

The technology revolves around the major current stakeholders in the offing. The manufacturers of the vehicle are some of the stakeholders, likewise the insurance firms that will be In charge of providing cover for the vehicles. The government is also counted as a stakeholder in the potency it possesses in terms of either assuming or endorsing the technology, the drivers of the current human driven vehicles and the car dealerships who are involved in the buying and selling of the vehicles.

The first appearance of the technology will usher in a new era in driving. Therefore, there will be huge impacts on the social and political front whereby, each of the aforementioned stakeholders either has something to loss or gain. In some cases, some of the stakeholders stand to either lose in totality or gain from the technology.

Since the technology has not however been fully devoted to the public, the most obvious stakeholders now are the manufacturers of the vehicles. The manufacturers of the vehicle are still in the kitchen trying to work out how to come out with the most efficient driverless car at the most inexpensive price. For example, Google. Inc., One of the innovators in the industry claims that the technology used in just a single car costs more than $150,000 (Google Unveils Driverless Vehicle Prototypes 54). This makes the vehicle very expensive to afford especial on the part of the consumer. The manufactures are also having a field day in ensuring that their vehicles are safer than their competitors.

With the driverless vehicle set to reach the streets two decades from now, Most of the states have not yet issued a go ahead for the vehicles to be used on the roads. Thus far, just three states being California, Nevada and Florida have allowed the vehicle to be trusted on the roads. Thus, from this the government ability to either admit the technology or reject it makes it one of the biggest stakeholder in the manufacture. The issuance of a license for the application of the technology on the road is a huge political gamble for any state government. At one end, in rejecting the technology, the state government remains firm to miss from the potential additions

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