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Driverless cars will ease traffic jams, help individuals who cannot legally drive get around, and reduce speeding tickets and car accidents (Kelion, 2015). They will waste less energy because of increased efficiency. Maybe they will do away with the blight of parking lots because they will drop us off then disappear … somewhere (Bilton, 2013). They will be silent chauffeurs. Without any attention or effort on our part, we arrive where we want to be. Or so the automobile manufacturers and tech industry tell us. It is a Utopian vision: a perfectly choreographed dance of moving machines (Hardy, 2015), for which we become cargo. No crashes, lurches, or other last-minute swerves (Naylor, 2013). No road rage or morning commute headaches.
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Mlodozeniec, T. (2016). Driverless Cars. In: Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505545_6
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