How Do Driverless Cars Affect Society

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Driverless Cars have the potential to have many positive impacts on our society, especially for people with disabilities. Driverless Cars give people with disabilities a sense of independence. They allow them to go wherever they want, whenever they want. Something that not all people with disabilities have the pleasure of doing. Also Driverless Cars greatly increase the safety factor of driving, walking, and riding your bike on/near roads. 20-50 million people are disabled from motor-vehicle accidents each year. Since one of the main features of Driverless Cars is the added safety, there will be 20-50 million people each year not becoming disabled in motor-vehicle accidents each year. Another technology that benefits society is text …show more content…
For Example: eye strain, muscle pain, joint pain, radiation exposure, and fatigue. Eye strain is a very common effect from computers, especially when there is a glare coming from the monitor. When there is a glare is lessens the variation from the words and the background forcing your eyes to work harder creating eye strain. This also creates headaches, blurred vision, dry eyes, and later force you to get glasses. Muscle and joint pain go hand in hand when it comes to computers affecting your overall physical health. When using the computer for an extensive amount of time you begin to slouch rather than sit up straight. Slouching creates many new problems and pains, such as: jaw pain, neck pain, back pain, headaches, balance, spine alignment issues, digestion issues, and many more. Also, when typing and using the keyboard for a long period of time you begin to have joint pain in the fingers and wrist. Another effect from computers is the radiation exposure. Computers are constructed with many heavy metals such as lead and mercury. Lead and mercury are both very poisonous and can be harmful just from breathing them in. Those are some of the negative impacts that using computer can do to your