Autonomous Cars and Their Implications
Khoi Le
Management Information System 450
Dr. Villarreal
Texas A&M University, Central Texas
March 9th, 2015
Abstract
This paper covers the implications of future autonomous cars on our education system, our
society and every individual. Legal problems arise in determining the basis for
accountability for driving and keeping maintenance of driverless cars. Technology has to
evolve to assist the authority in preventing offenders from exploiting vehicles’ technical
weak spots to commit crimes of serious magnitude. Technology also has to address new
technical issues created by these cars. Our current street and highway system is not
sufficiently sophisticated to support real-time interaction between cars and roads.
Intelligent roads not only enable faster and more efficient transportation, but also
significantly improve safety and reduce accident casualties. Safety issues can also arise
from within the car due to the risk of electronic hijacking and endanger its passengers,
especially adolescents riding by themselves. It is absolutely necessary for families to learn
and adapt to the new technology as it affects every facet of life.
Driverless Cars and Their Implication
The autonomous car might not be found on your everyday evening news, but it soon will
be. The driverless car experience will strike every person’s life on the planet, regardless of
whether they will own one. Carrying with it a tsunami of technology innovations, the
autonomous car will forever change our legal and social landscape. By the time it has been
fully integrated into civilizations across the World, our World will bear resemblances to
those dreams of science-fiction writers’; only now, the future can be predicted with great
precision.
It is easy to mistake and oversimplify this next milestone of mankind’s innovation to just
the next automobile industry’s revolution. According to Frey (2012), “Driverless
technologies will be blamed for destroying countless jobs” (p. 39). Dr. Frey speculated that
not only professional drivers, but also law enforcement personnel, health-care
professionals, and supportive services will be disrupted. Following this line of theorizing,
the future of our workforce will see a surge of demand for civil engineers as the same
demand will force many other groups to change their career path. The education system
will take at least two major turns: (1) demand for higher degrees of Engineering and
related majors will soar or (2) production and service engineering will find its way into
vocational trainings. Even more intriguing is his anticipation of a decline in automobile
purchases and the dawn of “transportation on demand” services. As consumers exclusively
