Journal 6# Annie Li

Chris Urson, who is working for Google’s Self-Driving Car Project, is leader of engineering. He holds his opinion clearly at the beginning of his article, which named Progress in Self-driving Vehicles, that he believe self-driving vehicles will bring a lot of benefit in the future, such as safety, less traffic and less car accident. But in fact, I still cannot trust the self-driving vehicle now, and I believe those kind of cars cannot be driven on the real road at least ten years.

Firstly, I believe most of you cannot let electrical machine control your life, me neither. Google cars are based on the real-time traffic status linking with Google Map. If something wrong with Google, is that means we cannot go outside? If someday self-driving cars take our driving abilities away, it will make me feel dangerous.

What’s more, I always believe that human brain is the most powerful thing in the world, and it can deal some complex situations that you meet on the road. So that’s why I don’t believe it will decrease the traffic jam. Let’s move on to the car accident. Google car will always follow the rule that human have set, it is more safety than driving by ourselves if the traffic are always as they expect. Unfortunately, traffic situations mostly are not as simple as they think. As an computer engineer, I know that there are not perfect codes for programs. We can let them exist in our computer because it’s not a big deal, but it is a big deal if some bugs will threaten our life.

To sum up, I hold a negative view for Google’s self-driving car appears in our real life, and I won’t let my family drive this at all.