I believed that self driving cars would be the key to preventing unforced accidents until Jerry Kaplan’s logical set me on a different path. For although there might be less accidents with such cars it’s the type that truly matter. If self driving cars make the same mistakes we fellow human’s make then logic dictates their computers can be programmed to reduce them but if they have accidents based on not thinking like us then it’s a bit scary. Will they slam on the brakes on a highway because rain storms appear to resemble walls in their non-thinking minds? Could they slide of the road because one of their camera’s has a glint that mistakes what is really occurring with what their computer mind has been programmed? Thinking is the logic that separates man from machine and until that has been programmed into our machine we better make sure the conditions they drive in don’t need it.