GM is already on the task of creating a driverless car according to Business Week. You may have read my last post regarding the future of the “spirited driver” if this sort of thing ever did come about.

It really does make you wonder when you can imagine hopping into your own KITT to go to school. Mom and Dad would no longer have to take you to school, drunk driving would be perfectly acceptable, and maybe our roads would no longer need stop signs or traffic signals.

Then comes the question, how much can we trust our lives to electronic devices? From Businessweek: “Much of the technology already exists for vehicles to take the wheel: radar-based cruise control, motion sensors, lane-change warning devices, electronic stability control and satellite-based digital mapping. And automated vehicles could dramatically improve life on the road, reducing crashes and congestion. If people are interested…the company plans to test driverless car technology by 2015 and have cars on the road around 2018″