Why Autonomous Cars are the Ethical Way to go

One of the inventions of the future that has been synonymous with science fiction movies of the past have been cars that drive themselves. This would be great on the surface, not having to worry about driving would make those long road trip a heck of a lot easier. When we actually take a look at these types of cars bunches of ethical issues come up. The biggest one that people get into is "who is held liable if the car crashes?" Let's use professional ethics and put it on the company that sold them the car, or perhaps the programming company that sold the car dealership the driver program. These kinds of questions keep on popping up.

Although there are negative points associated with automated cars, I will try to argue for this technology (as long as it doesn't follow apple maps). The creators of this technology are sure to take into account the number of lives that could be at stake if one part of the code went wrong. No one would release a project of this magnitude before it is ready to be released. With this in mind, they wont release this program until it would be a better driver than the average person driving. Also this program would be affected by little things like, a strange noise, night time driving (a educated guess here), or emotions are just a few. This would lead to less car accidents, which in turn would save lives. Almost every single ethical standpoint indicates that this is what we should do then. Saving lives would be the an instrumental good that would weigh heavier than any other intrinsic good would. There are plenty of other benefits from these types of cars, but the only other one that I will point out is that with this technology more people will be able to get around then they would have in the past. Take a blind man for example. There is no way that he would be able to drive in these current condition, but with the help of these cars he now could go where ever he wanted to without solely relying on other people. This would be amazing for them!

 Well regardless, it looks as though autonomous cars are going to in our lives whether one likes it or not. In the state of California they have approved of letting the google self-driving car on the streets, there is a human in the passenger seat for safety measures though. Some have ever speculated that in as little as five years there will be these cars on the road. That's why this is an ethical issue that needs to be discussed now before it already happens.