Driverless Cars Imagine having your life flash before your eyes while you are still in diapers. And imagine having a hot piece of metal crash into you and shatter your sense of everything. When I was just three years old I was the victim of a very scary car accident. While waiting to enter my preschool, my mother's car was rear-ended by a car traveling at 50 miles per hour. I remember how incredibly strong the collision was and even how the windows seemed to shake in the rubber mounts. Seeing my mother's head fly backwards and hearing the car swerve into oncoming traffic, I thought I was going to die. And why did this happen? Because the person driving behind us was texting on his phone and wasn't focused on the road. All of this, the emotional, physical and financial damage, and the possibility of losing my life or my mother's life, could have been avoided if the car behind us had been a driverless car. In short, a driverless car is capable of driving itself through an intricate system of cameras, sensors and computers. I propose that human drivers should be replaced with driverless cars because driverless cars are safer and more efficient. One of the reasons why driverless cars should replace human drivers is because they are safer and offer a complete solution to a problem that affects the entire world: car accidents. Currently, according to Ryan CC Chin, approximately 1.2 million deaths due to car accidents occur every year in the world (1) and in the United States alone “more than 37,000 people died in road accidents in 2008, 90% of them they died due to human errors” ( Markoff 2). Most of these accidents involving human error are caused by fatigued, inattentive or drunk drivers. However, according to the Pro proposal and...... half of the paper ...... by Sergey Brin, they will also make longer trips more economically feasible. Therefore, driverless cars will only fuel our adventure-seeking spirit, not extinguish it. Ultimately, while our instincts tell us to be wary of this new technology, the indisputable facts suggest that these fears are largely unfounded and that driverless cars will represent a huge improvement over human drivers. Now, every time I see a car accident on the road or read about one in the newspaper, I can't help but wonder what would have happened if my mother hadn't been able to swerve the car out of oncoming traffic after our accident. We were lucky. We survived. But people aren't always lucky and that's why we need driverless cars. Because they will make driving faster, more efficient and, above all, significantly safer. So here's to the future. Towards driverless cars and a safer tomorrow.