While\nautonomous vehicles are seen to be the future and are expected to revolutionize\nthe transportation industry, it would also lead to a lot of disruption to the\ncurrent industry, and it would lead to the loss of a lot of jobs. This will be the case because most of the\nearliest adopters of autonomous vehicles will be mass transit, trucking, and\nride-hailing industries. These industries will now use autonomous technology in\ntheir vehicles to self-drive vehicles from one point to another. Most reports\nproject that jobs will be lost at an alarming rate of25, 000 each month within\nthe period of steepest decline. In 2017, the trucking industry had over 3.5\nmillion drivers who earn $42,480 (Kerr et al., 2019). The ride-hailing industry\nemployed over 900,000 drivers. Aside from this, every sector which requires\ndriving part of the time would be affected. The adoption of autonomous vehicles\nwould see millions of drivers losing their jobs and source of income, and this\nwould have a knock on effect to the United States economy. This should be an\narea of concern since the adoption of this technology will leave millions\njobless and negatively affect millions of families in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plan\nof Action<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Complete\nautomation is not feasible primarily because of the great effect it will have\nof the millions of people making a living from driving jobs. To address this,\nvehicle manufacturers should look to incorporate a lower level of automation\ntechnology to ensure drivers are still needed. The primary goal of automation\nshould be to make roads safer and increase efficiency by helping the driver\nperform tasks much more efficiently. Because of this, I would recommend the\nadoption of partial automation. According to Norman (2015), partial automation\nis performed on level 2 vehicles which have two or more sophisticated driver\nassistance systems which can control certain features such as acceleration,\nbraking, or steering the vehicle. The addition of key features such as\nautomatic emergency braking, active lane-keep assist, and adaptive cruise\ncontrol will help the driver make a better judgment while on the road, and this\nwill go a long way in enhancing road safety (Norman, 2015). This is the best\njudgment because autonomous vehicles will not impact employment in the\ntransportation sector; however, the technology will improve road safety.\nTherefore, car manufacturers must shift their focus from complete automation,\nwhich would result in job losses for drivers and chiefly focus on developing\npartial automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benefits\nand Consequences of Action<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nadoption of partial automation would offer a number of key benefits to the\ntransportation industry as a whole. One key benefit is, it will help preserve\nthe jobs of millions of drivers within the transportation industry. This is\nparticularly key since complete automation would have implied that millions of\ndrivers would have lost their jobs to make way for the integration of this\ntechnology. Another key benefit of integrating partial automation is the\nreduction of road accidents, which improves road safety (Bagloee et al., 2016).\nPartial integration will help drivers reduce human errors, which may result in\nroad accidents. Another key benefit is this action will help lessen traffic\njams. Since automated vehicles are fitted with acceleration and braking\ntechnology, they are able to accelerate or brake simultaneously by\nparticipating in platooning (Bagloee et al., 2016). This will reduce congestion\nand improve traffic flow. One key consequence of this technology is it is\nrelatively expensive for research, develop, and integrate.
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