Should Driverless Cars Be Mandatory?

Self-driving cars are being built and are being experimented with everyday. Google has been building driverless cars for a while now. Features the cars will have is a GPS receiver, laser range finder, windscreen, video camera, radars, and an 160km-range engine. Although the self-driving cars already have all these features, it still has glitches that are continuously being operated on to be improved. Driverless cars technology cannot be fully trusted. A driver should have the option of driving his or her own car or have a self-driving car. Driverless cars should not be mandatory because of the dangers of the cars’ evolving technology. Some people seem to think driverless cars will help traffic jams and be safer all-around vehicles. However,
According to Los Angeles Times, “gasoline may give way to hydrogen, batteries or both.” The transformation from gasoline to hydrogen or batteries could cause people to lose their jobs because there would not be a high demand for gasoline anymore. Going from gasoline to batteries could cause complications because batteries would constantly have to be charged or replaced. With batteries having to be charged, a person’s electricity bill would sky-rocket. Driverless cars will move at a much slower velocity than driver-operated cars. When self-driving cars do a lot of stop/start work “they will become a less workable environment” (gizmag). Starting and stopping constantly will slow down the travel of the driverless vehicle. Computers becoming such a key factor in driverless cars cannot be a good idea. The increased use of technology will cause complications in transportation and “will open the industry to new companies” (Los Angeles Times). There are already tons of hackers, adding more technology to a vehicle could cause vehicles to be hacked and people riding in the car will not have a clue until they arrive in a different location then what they thought. With the new technology, someone will always be able to know a persons