moparnut
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Self-driving cars. Sounds cool, right? Simply get inside, punch in a destination et voila. You sit back, relax, read a book, have a coffee or text to your heart’s desire. Your mode of transportation will never again be subject to human error (as would be a bus or train or taxi). The likelihood of you having an accident is scarce as the vehicles have been preprogrammed, are on a specific route, and they all communicate with one another to ensure collisions and the like don’t happen. Sounds ideal, right? I think it sounds absolutely horrendous and beyond ridiculous. Removing the ability for us to transport ourselves, willingly, from one location to another is rather like giving up a basic right. I’m not going to hand over my freedom to a machine, a machine that may or may not be calibrated correctly.As technology is ever increasing in the vehicles we drive, my fear begins to rise. My car can brake for me, accelerate, tell me when something is somewhere it shouldn’t be; it can steer itself back into a lane if it feels I’m drifting, and it can even tell me when I need to take a break and get a coffee. It’s all a bit much. And all I keep thinking about is this: What happens if and when it all goes wrong? And so, here are the top 10 reasons I’ll drive myself, thank you very much.
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