In the future all cars,buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people traveling inside these vehicles will be passengers. Do you think the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages?

In the future, there will no longer be buses and trucks driven by people, and there will only be

passengers

in these

vehicles

. In my opinion,

this

phenomenon will have more disadvantages than advantages.

First,

there is yet no guarantee that driverless cars will be accident-proof, so when accidents happen, the party to which responsibility should be placed is disputable. There might be a tendency to place the blame on the

car

company where the cars are designed and produced, but the malfunction of automatic

vehicles

that run on complicated technology and highly intelligent algorithm may not be entirely the fault of the engineers who designed them. Since these cars are predicted to make human drivers completely obsolete, they must be based on a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence that, if not surpass, is almost equivalent to a human brain. At

this

point, it is difficult to decide who shall be responsible for the accident that occurs.

Second,

the phenomenon implies that there will no longer be a need for a human to learn how to drive a

car

, which leaves human

passengers

vulnerable to an automatic machine that does not speak the language

humans

do.

This

means that the only

humans

who are capable of controlling the buses and trucks on the road are the engineers who designed them. When the only people riding these

vehicles

are

passengers

, these people are at the mercy of an artificially intelligent machine that could make life-threatening decisions or mistakes. If,

for example

, the

car

needs to be stopped or made a turn and the technology is not quick enough or does not understand the situation like a human does, there will be no one in the

car

that can take charge of the situation and turn things around. As none of them can drive, all of their lives are

thus

dependent on the

vehicles

they ride.

This

future would only leave

humans

vulnerable to something their counterparts created. In conclusion, a future where

vehicles

will be entirely driverless is a dangerous one. It not only makes it difficult to account for responsibility when accidents occur but

also

leaves human

passengers

ever more vulnerable as they no longer need to learn to drive. The possibility of a phenomenon coming into existence is very probable, and these are the things visionaries should take into account before they endeavour in building technology that

humans

can’t control.