CARS WILL BE DRIVEN BY COMPUTERS, NOT PEOPLE

Human technologies have developed to an extent where scientists can think of a future scenario of automobiles being digitally controlled. This prediction is attributed to well-founded factors and this development will become one of the most life-changing advances of humankind. There is an array of reasons why scientists think self-driving cars will soon become a reality. The first thing to mention is the invention and development of artificial intelligence (AI) which makes automation become predominant in many industries including cars manufacture. Recent scientific and technological reports have proved AI’s capability of taking humans’ place in conducting a lot of tasks, even the most sophisticated ones, to say nothing of driving. With the help of AI combined with the most advanced automatic sensors which are already available in fancy car models, the possibility of self-driving vehicles is no longer out of reach. Besides, a number of car models nowadays have been equipped with driving assistant with high precision, rendering the prediction a matter of time. This phenomenon may bring about an innovation to the current transportation system. Automation in cars driving creates the possible decline in the number of fatal car accidents in the future. Fully automatic vehicles connected to one another through the Internet will create a network where each car can share its location and heading rout as well as receiving such information from others. Those mutual insights may mitigate the risk of collision, which is usually caused by human’s limited vision and reaction to sudden situation. That kind of network can also work as a map indicating which streets are overwhelmed with vehicles and recommending another route. This functions as an ideal solution in alleviating, or even erasing traffic jam. In conclusion, the scenario of self-driving cars is an inevitable phase in the civilization of humankind which makes our society a far more modern and convenient place.