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As driverless cars win human rights, we risk losing our innate human fight

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<p dir="ltr">The computer algorithms that pilot self-driving cars may soon be considered  (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3031771/car-tech/us-regulator-coming-around-to-view-that-a-google-computer-could-qualify-as-car-driver.html)the functional equivalents of human drivers. That’s the early opinion (http://isearch.nhtsa.gov/files/Google%20—%20compiled%20response%20to%2012%20Nov%20%2015%20interp%20request%20—%204%20Feb%2016%20final.htm) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—and so begins our slow-burn acquiescence in the battle of man versus machine.</p><p dir="ltr">I don’t have a problem with the basic concept of a computer-driven vehicle that transports human passengers. I’ll step inside your monorail without protest. I’ll even jump inside your robot-driven race car  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3g7i64RAI)on a closed-circuit track. <span style="line-height: 1.75em;">But when self-driving cars start making us dumber, and less alert, and less involved with transportation in a tactile, human way, then I have to sound the alarm.</span></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3030236/car-tech/as-driverless-cars-win-human-rights-we-risk-losing-our-inate-human-fight.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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