Hysteria Over Self-Driving Cars

In our age of technology, crazy new things are constantly being conceived and invented. As with majority of new technologies throughout history, such as the washing machine and the internet, people tend to freak out and fear the worst from these inventions. Many believe they create whole new worlds we live in or simply destroy us. This concept is called hysteria.  It refers to the idea that many people believe new technology will rot away humanity. People believed the internet would end face to face conversation, but obviously this did not happen. In our world today a new society-changing technology is slowly becoming a reality: the self-driving car. Following the hysteria model, many people are freaking out over it. They believe it will end driving for ever and endanger humanity. An example of a man in hysteria over these new cars is a blogger (not entirely sure of his name) on directorblue.blogspot.com. His post on self-driving cars is an interesting fear he has with the further development of the futuristic vehicles. 

The post the blogger wrote was out of fear that the self driving cars would severely increase the governments surveillance of us and allow them to control our every move. He claims that the government will take whatever chance they have to hop on the idea of self-driving cars so they can control our traffic and control what places we do and do not go to. He also claims that they will be mandated and therefore the government will be able to track every single citizen within the country who drives. He makes the reference to another new technology, drones, as an example of them taking opportunities to watch us. The post as a whole spells fear and hysteria that self-driving cars and all their technology will lead to the government controlling our lives.

Obviously this idea is a little crazy. This man is clearly deeply afraid of the government watching his every move and fearful of what they could do to us. Self-driving cars may bring driving to a whole new level of safety, ease, and efficiency but the blog poster skips these positives and focus on the worst case scenario for what the cars could be. This post displays hysteria very well showing how some people come up with wild fears of what high tech stuff might do to us. These self-driving cars are not out yet so who knows, they may turn us into robots of the government. This is highly unlikely though and people will realize this once they are around for some years. Until then, however, people like this blog poster will be losing their minds about the end of humanity.