Soon AI will be driving our lives

What if we were to tell you that your car is a better driver than you? You would probably have a good laugh over it and say that I was joking. That it was a preposterous thought. Not only because you believe that you're an excellent driver, and present before me your evidence of an accident-free driving life of the past 20 years; but also because, somehow, the thought of a car being a driver in its own right, and an excellent one at that, goes against the grain of what you have grown up knowing and believing. And yet, today, news reports are filled with announcements of car manufacturers such as Audi, Volvo, Toyota, to name only a few, not to mention newcomers like Tesla, working on technologies to put commercially-licensed driverless or self-driving or autonomous cars on the road in the next 5 years.