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Introduction: Autonomous vehicles are any type of vehicles that can operate on their own without a human driver. Current Use: Autonomous vehicles are currently being tested through Google and various car manufacturers in hopes of releasing them for public sale. Security Aspects: Autonomous vehicles work through technology, and because of this, their security can be breached and they can face hacking or cyber-attacks. If this happens, it would go completely against the popular safety advertisement of autonomous vehicles and cause serious accidents or complications. Ethical and Social Complications: An ethical complication is the violation people’s privacy through the GPS tracking of their location. Autonomous vehicles will also bring a lot of problems to insurance companies in the event of a crash and will be huge liability issues. Future Use: Car manufacturers are working to get autonomous vehicles on the road and “the forecast is that AVs are expected to constitute around 50 % of vehicle sales, 30 % of vehicles, and 40 % of all vehicle travel by 2040” (Bagloee et al. 2016). Since this is a new area, there is high competition to be the first to develop successful autonomous vehicles.