Response to book “Driverless, Intelligent cars and the road ahead”

Looking back to how our technology has advanced and at a speed that is unprecedentedly fierce, and causing a significant impact on our daily life. In the future, It is firmly to determine that nearly fully autonomous technology such as driverless cars will be implemented. But how far away we are exactly close to this time where this will carry out? Being driven by a vehicle not drive a car.

Maybe you might not be aware of, But we could see that driverless car or self-driving car has already put in the experiment and tested on the road and the technology seems nearly mature. But when talking about the self-driving cars being implementing to the public, people response often are they instead drive themselves. This confuses me because of that technology with the most hi-tech sensors that would react and respond faster than human do. Also, they do not have human error why people do not accept them.

In the book “Driverless, Intelligent cars and the road ahead” by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman mention, “The biggest barrier to adoption is usually not the performance of the technology; it’s the fact that the organization… are built on previous software products, and changing people’s work habits stirs up resistance.”(Hod and Melba, 2016, p11), In another word, this means one thing that stopped people from taking a new idea or take in and get used to new technology is never how the new technology capable doing something right, how well their function and how stable they are. It’s that always because people already develop the habit around the existing behavior or practice, they are so used to one thing, and they don’t want to change.

I totally agree with this quote, that although driverless cars are seemly indeed providing a lot of benefits, there are still resistances stopping us from taking in new ideas. Though this is the human nature, to have doubt and to questions things, I am looking forward to the benefit that a completed and a finished self-driving car would bring to us, that would totally change our life and daily basis.

Zarges, C. (2017). Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman: Driverless: Intelligent cars and the road ahead. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 19(1–2), 1–303. doi:10.1007/s10710–017–9313–0