I really can not wait for it.

-
OK, how many of you obtained his driver license when he was 16? Maybe a lot. I got mine when I was 24 since then I have been driving almost every day, back and forth, from home to work, from work to home, from home to here and there.

However, I am getting tired, tired of everything, driving, traffic, parking and waiting. I am used to driving but it seems like it is getting harder every day. People are getting crazy, parking is becoming impossible, driving day and night are becoming frustrating.

How many of you drive in the morning traffic to work, then by 6 pm drive again back home in the worst traffic;  get home dreaming of resting only to discover that your daughter has a swimming class and your son has a soccer training separated by 15 to 30 min at the two different places. Now you have to drive your daughter to her swimming, drop her off, and continue driving to you son’s soccer training, drop him off too, to drive back instantaneously to pick up your daughter then come back to pick up your son. Finally, when you look at your watch you discovered that you were driving from 5 or 6 pm to 8 pm. Then they ask why you are so tired.  Now imagine that this happened every other day and may include more on the weekend. I am sure this might drive you crazy as it did to me.
Taking all of this into your account and look into how many accidents happened here in the USA alone till the year of 2017
640px-US_traffic_deaths_per_VMT,_VMT,_per_capita,_and_total_annual_deaths
and this is not only in the US but everywhere around us in the world.
death rate in some counteries
Look more at these statistics and you will be terrified
death by drunk
I can keep going on forever, the internet is full of these data analyses, shows the number of fatalities by car accidents, you can find age, type of vehicle, male or female and so on.

So what we can do about that?  

     What is the life you deserve? Is it a life of slavery inside your car? Is it the life in which you lose a beloved one to an accident by a drunk or even a tired driver? No, the life we deserve is not this. 
     Imagine with me, a life where there are no road accidents, no waiting in traffic and no stress of going around day and night. This is my dream.
I dreamed of the day in which I get out of my house to find a nice self-driving car waiting for me. A car that can control itself, test the surroundings and drive me efficiently and safely to my work. During this fast trip, I can listen to music, relax, read a book or even start my work early. All of this while I am setting relaxing and going to work. I will never be late because everything is calculated, never have an accident because the AI car can see and feel everything around it, and can react in advance toward any danger that might pop up.
Empty cockpit of autonomous car, HUD(Head Up Display) and digital speedometer. self-driving vehicle.
     Imagine that you get home relaxed, your kids got their cars ready to drop them at their practices and bring them back when they are done. Your wife can go shopping without the hazard of diving at night and more.
This is not all, I am imagining a world where no one owns a car, I do not want owning a car. All the cars will belong to the government or a huge company (Uber already on the way now) and controlled by a smart AI system that knows your schedule, your kids and wife schedules. An AI that will prepare the car for you, that will take you to work then park in a central automatic underground garage, not waiting for you, but for anyone else who might need it. When you are done with your work; a car is waiting for you to pick you up for your enjoyable relaxing home journey.
In this view, we do not need a huge number of cars; the AI will be able to fulfill all our needs with a couple of millions of cars.  Since no one will own a car, you do not need a dead car under your house.  In case of emergency, a car from the closest parking and automatic maintenance garage will be under your house in less than 5 minutes (maybe less); and you can pay a monthly rent that is all. These cars will come in different sizes, personal, couples and family sizes, you do not need a huge car if you are going to work by yourself.
The top leaders of this progress right now as of 2018 are (according to Navigant):
  1. GM, Its Level 4 self-driving Cruise AV,  does not include a steering wheel.
  2. Waymo,
  3. Daimler-Bosch
  4. Ford
  5. Volkswagen Group
  6. BMW-Intel-FCA
  7. Aptiv
  8. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
  9. Volvo-Autoliv-Ericsson-Zenuity
  10. PSA
Moreover, these cars will be electric cars, so we will take care of our environment to save our beloved planet and clean our life to the one we deserve.


 Extra readings 
  1. https://www.aarp.org/auto/trends-lifestyle/info-2018/self-driving-cars.html
  2. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/01/10/self-driving-cars-exacerbate-congestion-says-paul-priestman/
  3. https://investorplace.com/2018/12/4-self-driving-car-stocks-paving-the-way-for-profits/
  4. https://www.zdnet.com/article/dossier-the-leaders-in-self-driving-cars/
  5. https://www.wired.com/story/guide-self-driving-cars/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Amazon is Burning

-
Image
      I regularly do not like to write about news, however, this time is related to our main goal, saving the planet and changing our lives. If you have not heard, the Amazon is currently burning, not that Amazon, but I am talking about the Amazonian forest. You might ask why this is so important; this happens every year, in the Amazon and California even in Russia.      The fires every year in California or Russia may be due to environmental reasons. However, I believe that some of these fires are not induced by environmental causes but by humans who have business interests in these areas. This could be true or false but still lies under the conspiracy theory category.    What is really important about the Amazonian Rainforest is that this forest is called “the planet’s Lungs”. This is because the forest alone produces almost 20% of the oxygen in the whole world. According to the Brazilian Research Center (INPE), the number of fires in Brazil is 80% higher than last year.
Read more

Now Everything is Clear

-
Image
It was not a surprise at all, remember in my previous post I told you that I had some suspicions that the Amazonian rainforest ’s fire did not start by natural causes and it might be intentionally set on fire. Surprisingly, this might be actually true. If you follow the news regarding our “Planet’s Lungs” as we called it, you may noticed that   Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro refused the world wide aid presented to help in the situation through the G7 members. And if you decided to dig more into the news you would find this story everywhere. In addition, the Brazilian media started a huge attack on the western nations claiming that they are only interested in taking the Amazon forest from Brazil claiming a colonialist mindset . Have a look and see yourself:  BBC   Amazon fires: Brazil to reject G7 offer of $22m aid   Politico Brazil rejects G7 Amazon money MSNBC   Why Brazil's President is refusing millions of dollars in aid to fight Amazon fires CNN
Read more