Enzo Woo's Blog

With Google’s announcement that a project to develop cars that drove themselves was well in the works, in some sectors of the journalism community, all hell broke loose. Are we not sacrificing the key human element in a staple activity that more or less defined the latter half of twentieth century in America? Is this step perhaps the first of many that will inevitably lead us into robotic apocalypse?

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While there is a large ethics question in taking the humanity out of such a human activity like driving, the bigger, and more relevant, question has to be the one of financial feasibility and business sense.

Self-driving, self-sufficient, self-destructive?!

Though the always-diversifying Google might claim that a self-commandeering car is well on its way, revolutionizing safety and fuel efficiency while promoting comfort at the same time, a truly self-sufficient driving machine has to be far off into the horizon. Will people as a whole adopt anytime soon, putting their life quite literally into the hands of a motorized brain? Will this trust even matter, with so many other drivers who are not commandeering automated cars on the road? Did Google bit off a little more than they can chew with this point of difference? All this remains to be seen.

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