CONTENT:

The governance of the autonomous vehicles remains in a muddle while the events revolving
around the ever-rising incidents of accidents calls for an urgent need for regulations, where the
companies and the authorities remain silent, further muddling the situation of confusion.

STYLE:

The issue has been address in an academic style, and is meant to help the audience targeted, with
a literary view of the issue.

FORMAT:

The study of the accident is in an analytical format, where the incident and what surmised has been
addressed critically.

AUDIENCE:

The targeted audience of this study is the drivers of the Self-Driving Vehicles for above all they’re
the ones faced with the dilemma in the incident.

SUMMARY:

Ever since the Uber self-Driven Cars met with the tragic accident, issues in regards to the blame,
the regulations and the overall readiness of the autonomous tech has faced spotlight. Although, no
ostensible comments have been made by Uber and Lyft sveral significant issues have been raised
in regards to guides issued by Lyft for the drivers manning these self-driven cars and that these
guidelines were not observed. Drivers manning these cars, are meant to play an active role in the
driving process, however there are still some situations where such intervention may be futile, or
unnecessary. The NHTSA, investigating the Uber Crash, has issued some guidelines for these
autonomous vehicles, but what surmised has only added another layer of complexity to the already-
muddled topic of blame. Although, some steps have been taken, that Uber has suspended its testing
of the autonomous vehicles, as the investigation remains pending, there is no indication how this
event shall affect the governance of these vehicles, and that there are no criminal charges on file
towards Uber or the driver in the fatal crash, subsists the concern all the more.
PROPOSAL:

Every life matters. And it is the solemn duty of all to ensure that none go to waste. Such is an
ideology that must be adopted by an individual. Road accidents is one of the major cause of death
worldwide. Studies had suggest that an estimate of 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes
each year and about a 50 million injured ones.1 In this disastrous outcomes developing countries
have a large share of burden as a total of 85 percent annual deaths and about a 90 percent disabled
due to injuries.2 Even in United States 40,000 people died due to road accident showing a 6 percent
increment in death from 2015 and 2016.3

Thus for value of life it became essential to prevent such accidents which can only be possible if
people will actively support some proposed views and act in accordance with legal framework.
The most common and simple means of preventing injuries from road accidents is using of seat
belts and air bags. This is evident from various studies that this helps a lot in reducing death and
injuries.4 Seat belts are most common to reduce the risk as seat belt use reduced the risk of facial
injuries by 74%, 64%, and 73% in frontal, nearside, and far-side impacts, respectively.5

Another good preventive measure is of air bag whose deployment has been shown to reduce the
severity and incidence of facial injury.6 The decreased injuries and deaths due to air bag
deployment are closely associated with seat belt use7 as air bags alone help reduce the risk of death
or injury, but it is suggested better to use seat belts and air bags in combination.8

These simple restrains are useful in preventing accidents but other factors like age, sex and mental
condition of drivers must also be looked to mitigate road accidents. Alcohol impairment is another

1
Mohan Dinesh, “Road Safety in less Motorized Environment: Future Concern,” “International Journal of
Epidemiology” 31.3 (2002) 527-32 print.
2
World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, “World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention “WHO” 6
February 2006, web. 9 April 10, 2018.
3
Boudette Neal, “U.S. Traffic Death Rise for a Second Year Straight,” NY times 15 Feb. 2017 Web 9 April 2018
4
McCartt AT, Kyrychenko SY. “Efficacy of side airbags in reducing driver deaths in driver-side car and SUV
collisions,” “Traffic Injury Prevention” 8.3 (2007) 162–170 print.
5
Cormier J, Duma S. “The epidemiology of facial fractures in automotive collisions,” “Annals of Advances in
Automobile Medicines” 53 (2009) 155–165 print.
6
Yonghan Ju & So Young Sohn, “Time to Death Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents in Relation to Delta V, Drunk
Driving, and Restraint Systems,” “Traffic Injury Prevention” (2014) 771-777 print.
7
Evans L. “Driver injury and fatality risk in two car crashes versus mass ratio inferred using Newtonian mechanics”
“Accidents Analysis Prevention” 26 (1994) 609–616 print.
8
Yonghan Ju & So Young Sohn, “Time to Death Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents in Relation to Delta V, Drunk
Driving, and Restraint Systems,” “Traffic Injury Prevention” (2014) 771-777 print.
factor considered to be important in affecting the level of injury from vehicle accidents.9 Thus it
was tried to penalize this act so that people will not risk their life.

Thus state is trying to provide much safer environment as they can by repairing the roads and
maintain traffic to reduce the risk of road accidents. In conclusion, rules and regulations can be
laid down, safe roads can be provided but for effective controlling of road accidents people must
ensure to drive properly to reduce the risk of themselves as well as other people on roads.

REFERENCES

1. Boudette Neal, “U.S. Traffic Death Rise for a Second Year Straight,” NY times 15 Feb. 2017 Web 9 April
2018

2. Cormier J, Duma S. “The epidemiology of facial fractures in automotive collisions,” “Annals of Advances in
Automobile Medicines” 53 (2009) 155–165 print.
3. Evans L. “Driver injury and fatality risk in two car crashes versus mass ratio inferred using Newtonian
mechanics” “Accidents Analysis Prevention” 26 (1994) 609–616 print.
4. McCartt AT, Kyrychenko SY. “Efficacy of side airbags in reducing driver deaths in driver-side car and SUV
collisions,” “Traffic Injury Prevention” 8.3 (2007) 162–170 print.

5. Mohan Dinesh, “Road Safety in less Motorized Environment: Future Concern,” “International Journal of
Epidemiology” 31.3 (2002) 527-32 print.
6. Yonghan Ju & So Young Sohn, “Time to Death Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents in Relation to Delta V,
Drunk Driving, and Restraint Systems,” “Traffic Injury Prevention” (2014) 771-777 print.

9
House EG, Waller PF, Stewart JR. Blood-alcohol level and injury in traffic crashes. Paper presented at: 26th
Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine; 1982; Ottawa, ON, Canada