It was an ordinary day. Reading an article in the Saturday Evening Post titled "Beware The Self-Driving Car. Starts out telling that roughly 37,000 people die every year in automobile accidents. And...the reason for most of those accidents is human error. So, to correct that problem, sometime in the new future, the steering wheel will be taken out of the hands of real people and handed over to artificial intelligence devices that are said will be largely infallible. Yeah, right! They can say that, but I'll only believe it when I see it. It is said, (I'm not sure by whom) that you'll be able to hop in your car and push in your destination and presto!, before long you will be there. So...how soon is this going to happen? Before I die? They need to get busy real quick if that is the correct answer! Organizations such as the RAND Corporation, which is a public policy research group, argue that we should speed up the rollout of self-driving technology before more lives are lost. But, driverless vehicles are far from infallible. A few months ago, a prototype driverless 2019 Tesla S crashed into a tree and killed it's two passengers even though there was no one in the driver's seat. I guess we aren't quite ready yet! I know...someday the technology will no doubt be perfected, but rushing it may not be the best idea. I'm not sure I could hand over my driver's seat to a computer. Now, if you can build a rear seat that is accident proof I will sit in the back and let the car do the driving. As for now, it seems like we have reached a high level of laziness if we can't drive our own car. For me...well I actually like and enjoy driving. I might be a bit to reckless in my driving techniques from time to time, but I much prefer to do the driving instead of sitting in the passenger seat or rear seat. I realize that someday there will truly be driverless cars, but that doesn't mean I have to ride in or own one. That's just not going to happen! Anyway, driverless cars bring two very specific words to mind; trial lawyer! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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