Advantage and disadvantage of self driving cars

The reading and the lecture are about the pros and cons of the self driving cars. More specifically, the author discusses the advantages self driving cars provides. The lecturer in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that there are more disadvantages than advantages of the driverless cars. In the reading passage, the author begins by stating that number of the traffic accidents have increased way too much and most of these are caused by human errors which is why self driving cars are safe. The lecturer, however disagrees with this viewpoint. He states that even driverless cars are developed by humans and can cause errors. To support his statement, he goes on to say that the self driving car just hit another car causing accident. The author also claims that self driving cars are good for the environment as it can communicate with other cars and reduce traffic problems. Again the lecturer believes there is flaw in the authors argument. The speaker holds that use of driverless cars causes removal of age restrictions for driving. This increases number of people driving cars and eventually causing more pollution. Another reason why the author feels that self driving cars are advantageous is because it saves the passengers time which they can utilize to work, read or watch videos. The professor in the listening passage is doubtful that this statement is accurate. He suggests that these days people find driving relaxing and distraction from the work as they can listen to music and radio throughout their way.