Conclusion

As technology expands throughout the world, self-driving cars will become the future mode of transportation universally. The legal, ethical, and social implications of self-driving cars surround the ideas of liability, responsibility, and efficiency. Autonomous vehicles will benefit the economy through fuel efficiency, the environment through reduced carbon emissions, society through more togetherness, and the legal system through a simpler system of liability. However, these ideas revolve around two central aspects of autonomous vehicles: how they work and how they are kept secure. As technology advances, the security technology regarding self-driving cars will also continue to grow to combat hackers, improve the accuracy of internal systems, and prevent accidents. Once all these technologies are optimal, society will be one step closer to the utopia of flying cars most people dreamed of as children.

(Lee, 2017)