Self-driving cars are a dangerous waste

There is talk and even action as the big car companies try to catch up in the race to introduce self-driving cars now. The question is what is the purpose of it? Who really craves a self-driving car? For whose good is it? Above all, who could afford one? Such technology requires billions of dollars, one such vehicle needs thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to be able to self drive for … one person.

Self-driving cars should not be allowed on the roads cruising among all other regular individually driven cars because technology, although, according to tech gurus is already better than our brains, but … it is not. The self-driving cars should not be allowed among regular drivers, because they will cause lots of collisions and kill people. The only way that the self-driving cars might be able to drive is when they have their own roads, lanes on highways, in other words, their own net of roads.

Yet another problem with self-driving cars is cost, such technology has already swallowed tons of money for nothing and it would waste much more in the future. It would be better, more efficient, more productive and better use of money to build a net of roads for mass transportation such as metros, high speed trains, cable car systems and buses. Wasting so much money to drive one person is ridiculous. That money could serve much better to larger population, in my view. It will be the highest and best use of money for such projects and not utopian idea of self-driving cars among regular drivers. It will simply not work and millions of drivers are not interested in self-driving cars as I hear and read. So, why bother and waste so much money?

Liz Szymanski

Elk Grove Village