Journal 6 Gengwei Zhang (Daniel)

Urmson, who is a leader engineering in Google's Self-Driving Car Project, states in the article “Progress in Self-Driving Vehicles” that "In the coming years advanced assistance systems and self-driving vehicles will become common place, delivering on the promise of making roads safer and more convenient for all." It not only reflects that the theory of self-driving cars has been accepted by many people because of the property, it also likes a announcement that people will bring a revolution in the future.

The mean reason why he believes self-driving vehicles are important for the future is decreasing traffic accidents. As Urmon says in the article: "More than 30,000 people are killed each year on the road, and over 90 percent of these accidents are due to human error." But it also have some negative views from some people who cannot totally trust high technology. The main negative point that they consider is that how can it deal with the international problem, such as linking failed or some bugs. Maybe it will avoid some small traffic accidents, but it has huge potential disasters.

However, some people, like me, believe self-driving is the best choice for the people who are not very good at driving. I saw a lot of serious traffic accidents on TV or on news, and one of my friend suffered a traffic. I deeply realized that sometimes small mistakes will lead to disasters. Self-traffic cars are based on the map data from Google map, which we have been used a lot of years. It is a reliable map with great real time traffic information and navigation. This technology will be achieved on self-deriving cars, and it will totally instead of human operations. On the other hand, I believe developers has thought those problem like cannot link internet, and those problem will be solved before selling it. I will let my family and friends try self-driving cars, and it is more safe than driving by themselves.