The future: driver-less cars

In this day in age technology is advancing faster than ever. IPhones and computers have become to focal point of your society, getting smarter and smarter. What about cars? Driverless cars have left the world of fiction and are now hitting the actual roads. Waymo (a Google spinoff) has a fleet of 100 self-driving Chrysler minivans on California roads.

Uber has recently reported to be testing 100 driverless cars in both Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Tempe, Arizona. Ford has 30 self-driving test vehicles on the roads in California, Michigan and Arizona and hopes to triple that number by the end of the year.

Personally, I think self driving cars are a danger to citizens and public areas. Computers are highly intelligent but have no emotion or appeal to rational thinking outside of facts and coding in their system. If the car were to malfunction it could end up killing a person outside or in the car.

In March, Uber briefly suspended its program after a self-driving car crashed in Tempe. No one was injured, advocates say autonomous vehicles will make roads safer, but critics say that technology is not yet ready for prime time.

I think driving car should be left solely to people. Technology is not ready to have the lives of humans put into its hands. There is too much chance left to what could happen, for now driving should be the job of people.

Other than the dangers of driving there is also the fact that people are going to lose their jobs. Technology is starting to take over human jobs, but how will these people make money for their families or themselves?

According to CNN there were 750,000 Uber drivers in the US in 2017. That's an increase from 327,000 Uber drivers in the US in 2015. That means in driverless cars become a full time things then all of these people will lose their jobs.

Many people argue that driverless cars will reduce drivers being distracted at the wheel. Although this may be truth there is an easy way to fit this problem, put down your phone. Drivers themselve are the least of our worries, things like potholes, worn paint and other irregularities will potentially become even greater hazards and not having a driver in the car adds so much fuel to that fire.

Driverless cars might eventually have many benefits but at the moment, those potential benefits are outweighed by many problems.