Google has always been known to be a great internet search engine and now it helps us manage our lives with apps like Google Maps, Google Translate and Google Drive. A person can do just about anything with Google except drive. Imagine a society without road accidents, speeding tickets or road rage, where cars drive themselves. Google is currently developing and testing this technology. Cars driving without drivers are the start of a new era of vehicles. The self-driving car technology created by Google is based on a global positioning system (GPS); This GPS is programmed using Google maps. It also uses artificial intelligence (AI) software that will detect anything near the car and mimics decisions made by human drivers (Markoff, 2010). The Google car also uses an automatic braking system (ABS), a special rangefinder and traction control for added safety. Self-driving cars are safer, allowing them to be built lighter, save fuel and move closer together. This will allow more people to travel on the roads simultaneously (Markoff, 2010). This could potentially save lives, as 1.2 million lives are lost to road accidents each year. Thanks to this technology, this number could be reduced by half (“Google Developing Self-driving, 2013). Although the technology is very advanced, a driver is still necessary in the vehicle. Computers are not as reliable as we would like and in a self-driving car the computer may also have a problem, which is why a human driver should take control of the vehicle. A human driver must also enter the coordinates of the destination. Human drivers can benefit from GPS in an unknown location by writing down the coordinates in the middle of a paper......rivalry, terrorist attacks, even kidnappings. New laws will need to be discussed regarding liability and insurance. This technology will help humans advance in different technologies, but it will also make some people lazy. It is a simple game of cause and effect, some causes may be important but the effect may not be as good, or vice versa. Works Cited Google developing self-driving cars. (February 11, 2013). Retrieved from http://news.discovery.com/tech/google-developing-self-driving-cars.htm Markoff, J. (October 9, 2010). Google cars drive themselves in traffic. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0Martelle, S. (May 11, 2012). Self-driving cars and the liability issues they raise. Retrieved from www.protectconsumerjustice.org/self-driving-cars-and-the-liability-issues-they-raise.html