One new innovation in the works that is receiving a good bit of criticism is the concept of autonoumous cars. With several leading carmakers such as GM and Audi looking into this future of putting the “auto” in automobiles, it is Google which is staking its claim in the race to achieve the earliest success. While these breakthroughs in technology are right around the corner, Top Gear goes to bash on the public testing, and inevitable release of these cars to the general population as well.
While their reasons to oppose the concept are reasonable, I believe that their did not look into the current bugs already acknowledged by the automakers, and how they are being taken car of. Google’s example of the vehicle is one which has been pushing laws to progressively work these self driving cars onto the roads, and with four states currently on board, it is going to be a piece of tomorrow without a doubt. Currently the vehicles drives with a top speed of 25 mph for safety reasons, and it does require human intervention on some scenarios, but this is in the works as well. Google has logged over 700,000 miles on this concept, it is still being placed in the test phase, but with high hopes for market visibility by 2020. With the release essentially on the horizon, these self driving cars would be a component to revolutionize the fields on driving, and the public release would seek to test this.
The rationale for this idea is grande on more reasons than one, and with the safety aspect leading the case for it, I would say that the release would be one of high praise to the dawn of roads revolving around safety and efficiency for a better tomorrow.
JMcQueen 
I feel that if this comes to be, things would never be the same. As a child, all that I look forward to was becoming 16 and getting my license and my first car. The new generations would not understand this excitement fully and will be missing out on a lot that happened “in the good ol’ days”.
It’s crazy to think that we’re only a few years away from cars that drive themselves. It seems like stuff in the movies but it’s really exciting to see how technology is evolving. I’m totally on board for a new generation of self driving cars as long as they don’t take over the world.
This is such an interesting concept, seeing as how they have touched on it in so many sci-fi movies, so it’s great that Google has figured out how to do it successfully. I am concerned for a few safety features, but I’d definitely like to read more on it.