Why We Need Self-Driving Vehicles

 Why We (Really) Need Self-Driving Vehicles 

Janpha Thadphoothon

I  am dead serious that humans should stop driving cars and other motor vehicles. If you were to disagree, you'd better come up with better solutions. Evidence is on the side of the technology. We need this technology and we need it really urgently. This urgency has pushed several innovative projects.

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Human drivers ---- safety, arbitrariness, and natural errors 

Humans are less consistent and reliable when it comes to driving. I do not want to blame everyone, every human, but humans have ego and often argue against anything that will take away their arbitrariness disguised under the mask of freedom. Old people are different from youngsters when it comes to driving behavior. There are 'noises' everywhere and unpredictability and accidents occur on a regular basis - injuries, loss of lives, and damages. One may wonder what could be done to save lives and prevent tragedies.

I do not have to provide more evidence to make my case that humans are less than perfect to function as drivers. Machines can do a better job in terms of safety and they can offer us a better quality of life.

One solution is to go automatic and reduce human errors from the equation. 

Of course, I am a follower of the push toward self-driving technologies,

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how many lives have been lost due to motor vehicle accidents. Many have become disabled. It is odd that we endure this tragedy and accept this as unavoidable, if not fate.

I admire men like Elon Musk and many others who are making driving less lethal. The fact that cannot be denied is a big loss to humanity. For the first time in human history, we can capable of designing automatic systems to make driving safer and less torturing.

The sooner the technology is ready and adopted, the more lives, pointless deaths, and suffering we can reduce, or possibly eliminate.