Everyone has dreamed it–not having to drive to work, school, or on your vacation. With companies such as Google and Uber working on self-driving cars, that dream is coming closer and closer, and some cars already have elements of self-driving, like automatically matching the speed of surrounding cars and self-parallel parking. But self-driving isn’t without its own set of problems.

Problem #1. Lack of Morals

A self-driving car would have no morals, meaning it wouldn’t do things like hit the brakes for animals. Depending on how it is programmed, it might not even slow down for people that get in front of it. The car also can’t make the moral distinction between a group of people that it will kill and one person as a passenger. To illustrate this, MIT made the moral machine, an online survey/game that possesses different scenarios. Senior Riley Jones made the argument that a machine doesn’t have ethics, so he would choose the option that made sure the car always went straight forward regardless of what was in front. This raises questions about the effectiveness of the self-driving cars.

Problem #2: Lack of Adaptability

If the car can’t make judgment calls or deviate from the programmed path, why would you want to use one? This is a problem because of the numerous problems that might occur while driving, some of which the car might not be programmed for. This would mean that a self- driving cars usefulness in an emergency would be severally limited until we reach Singularity. (If you are unfamiliar with this term, or equate it to black holes, in technology it means the point at which computers lose the “Artificial” in Artificial Intelligence. See Ultron or Skynet). But until that point, a self-driving car would remain a liability in the event of a crash or other emergency.

Problem #3 Hacking

Yes, a self-driving car could be hacked. In fact, certain cars today are liable to be hacked and such hacking would leave passengers prisoners in their own cars. The hacking could be done in such a way so it would leave no trace, just a claim that the car suddenly lost control. So much of our life already is connected to the internet, why would we want our car to become part of it?