Cyber Security

In all honesty I won’t feel comfortable riding in a car which is driven by a computer program or being in the interstate driving alongside self- driving cars. Why if there is a glitch in the system and the self-driving car stops in the middle of the interstate?

The problem with self -driving cars is that they cannot quick adjust to sudden change in the traffic flow on the highway. For example, a fire truck entering the high way and you need to move to the side or stop the car because the traffic light as turned red before you can go through.

Also, it seems that the role or function to be executed by the auto pilot and the human driver behind the wheels is not clearly defined. That was the main cause of the 2018 Uber self-driving accident in Arizona-the uber self-driving car system detected an Arizona pedestrian 6 seconds before the impact but fail to initiate emergency braking and ended killing the woman. Investigation into the accident discovered that the Uber engineers intentionally disable the cars emergency braking system to reduce potential erratic behavior of the car but did not program the car to alert the human operator to manually apply the brakes (Bomey ,2018).

Reference

Bomey, N. (2018). [online] Usatoday.com. Available at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/05/24/uber-self-driving-car-crash-ntsb-investigation/640123002/ [Accessed 18 May 2019].