Driverless cars

Since 1886 cars have revolutionized the world, life would never be the same, and let's be honest in this day and age none of us could live without a car and I bet it's safe to say that's it's a need rather than a want. At this years CES (consumer electronics show) 2016 car technology was the eye catcher on the floor with automated cars leading the pack. This isn't something new, Google has been working on driver less cars for a while but now it's really blowing up since we could all be depending on them in the near future (maybe even in a decade). Google claims that 94% off car accidents are caused by human error and that by introducing driver less cars that amount can be reduced dramatically.

I think it's a great technology that can really drive the world forward in new directions, but one fact that worries me is that car manufacturers are planning to not add an emergency manual override system to the cars. Now I know what you might be saying "But Phil! Technology in the future will be so good that it'll have barely any chance of malfunctioning". To that I say that yes, technology will be better in the future but there will always be a chance to have malfunction no matter what, and would you feel safer knowing that if one day your automatic car malfunctions you can take the wheel and steer it to safety. But then that leads to another point about automatic cars, it's that if we all become accustomed to them would we become worse drivers? I mean the saying goes "practice makes perfect" and if we don't practice we'll lose our ability to drive well and while driver less cars are something that is coming in the near future for first world countries, it'll take longer for the whole world to adopt this technology and let alone make it affordable for the average household. So people traveling from country to country that are used to automatic cars will feel confused when faced with the task of driving.

To sum up, I think driverless cars are cool and deserve to be utilized but I don't think they should fully faze out classic manual cars since you'll never know when you'll need to take the wheel yourself. Don't forget to leave your opinions in the comments section down below, cheers!

                                                                                                                                       -Phil


P.S. If you want to learn more about how driverless cars work than check out this cool video by Protin Pictures