text: From a devil's advocate perspective, the idea of these cars are actually quite neat to me. What convinces me these are not the right direction for us to be headed in is the fact that they will be run by computers. Trust me, I do not hate computers by any means, I actually have a passion for them, but the idea of having my life in a computers hands scares me. If you have ever done any computer programming or software development, there is often a phrase that is thrown around and it is, "The computer will do exactly what you tell it to do." Meaning it knows no more than what you teach it. When humans drive, they have a healthy fear of speed and the dangers it brings. They also know that there mistakes could cost other people's lives, and it instills a certain level of fear inside you when you're behind the wheel, knowing that it would be there fault if there happened to be a crash. Computers do not care if they crash, or kill someone, or go to fast, unless we teach them to; which, would take an unrealistic amount of time to do.