Driverless Cars
Research
A driver-less car is also known as an autonomous car, self-driving car or robot car. Driveless cars can carry humans around from place to place, but all the challenges of planning a route, taking other traffic into account and driving safely are manged by computerised systems. Driverless cars will help the environment and the traffic levels overall. If people use driverless cars, some car businesses will lose profits and go out of business. On the other hand, the environment will benefit from it. Air pollution will get less and people who are suffering from air pollution will be happy.
Advantages
Fewer traffic jams and accidents.
People won’t need to learn to drive, no “drink and drive” accidents.
Environmentally friendly - less pollution.
Person being transported does not have to drive and can do something else.
Risks
Who will be liabile for damage caused to/by cars?
Cyber security - risk of hackers causing chaos.
Driver has no control over the car - could be a problem in an emergency.
This will be expensive to implement.
Media
Application for Solving World Hunger
Less fuel will be used due to more efficient use of cars. The petrochemicals saved can be used to make fertilizers for crops.
Driverless farm vehicles can be programmed to harvest more efficiently - even at night.
Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlHMltEaNo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/driverless-car.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26433493
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10411238/Googles-driverless-cars-are-safer-than-human-drivers.html