Should A Day Come Where Manually Driven Cars Are Banned?

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Should a Day Come Where Manually Driven Cars Are Banned From the Road?
Introduction
With new technology comes great expectations. The notion has not been different with the advent of autonomous cars that are deemed to become prevalent in the future. Today, there is a considerable number of vehicles on the roads. The number of accidents and injuries on the streets is overwhelming, with the U.S. reporting over 4 million severe injuries in 2015. The idea of banning manually driven cars in the future elicits mixed reactions from different corners; while one side supports the accrued benefits of self-driving cars, the other stresses on the need to maintain the human experience, which has been enjoyed over the years. The study provides an argumentative assessment of the issue of banning human drivers to embrace the selfless driving technology.
Background of issue
In a recent report on policy guidelines by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the development and regulation of self-driving vehicles occur as an essential alternative (Dorf,). The guidelines are the product of collaborations with other sector players and having a preliminary status; it becomes accurate to refer to the document as a proposal for public policy.
The announcement of the guidelines is a critical indication that dominant application of self-driving cars on the roads will be a reality shortly. Currently, efforts by government regulators direct attention to partnerships with other industry leaders to anticipate and address problems, thus allowing the introduction and sale of the self-driving cars (Dorf). The phase will involve a transition to new driverless cars share the road with manually driven cars.
Since there are many human-operated vehicles on the road compared to computer-managed ones, the idea of autonomous vehicles in place of human drivers seems unattainable. Nonetheless, companies like Google, Tesla and Uber continue to develop and test driverless vehicles, while focusing on safe technology (Dorf,). The use of self-driving cars as opposed to human-driven cars to realize the more significant superiority in safety remains a big question.
Here, the critical question is: Should individuals interested in driving for themselves allowed to operate the autonomous cars in the future? This question will require a critical response from the state regulators, as well as other major industry participants (Sorrel). It is not too early to start the discussion on working towards banning human drivers on the roads.
Driving should be made illegal given the availability of new technology to prevent adverse risks of accidents and even deaths. More than 1.2 million individual passes on people each year from car accidents (Samit). While the use of protective tools in vehicles, such as airbags, seatbelts and pressure monitoring systems, the number of fatalities shows a decline. However, addressing the problem of human error continues to present a massive challenge for the automotive makers. Historically, the use of automated vehicles date back to the 1920s period, with significant advancement in the 1950s. The introduction of computers in the 80’s marked the be...