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What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-driving cars?
Advances in technology, automation, and artificial intelligence have lead to break throughs in the dream of self-driving cars. What will the advantages and disadvantages, and pros and cons, be to society of having these vehicles on the road?
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Read this position →Advantages of self-driving cars include less traffic, and fewer accidents
This position sets out the advantages claimed for self-driving cars: that removing the driver removes the errors behind most collisions, and that vehicles able to hold steady gaps and share information use road space more smoothly than people do.
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Read this position →Disadvantages of self-driving cars include cost, and safety concerns from hacking
This position sets out the disadvantages claimed for self-driving cars: that a vehicle driven by software can be reached by someone other than its owner, and that the cost and the long mixed-traffic transition fall unevenly on those who travel.