I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to keeping up with the latest and greatest technologicial innovations.

That’s something my 15-year-old can vouch for because I’m always asking him to help me make something work on my cell phone or my DVD player.

But I do try to keep up with the current events, and I just read an article today about a future with driverless cars.

It seems General Motor executives believe that such an animal could become available within the next decade.

Many of the technologies such as motion sensors, lane-change warning devices, GPS mapping and radar-based crusie control, to make a driverless vehicle exist, they claim.

GM says there’s a few simple issues standing in the way of a driverless vehicles. Issues such as privacy, governmental regulation and Americans’ willingness to give up control of their vehicles.

The company also claims the new technology would go along way toward reducing the numbers of Americans who die or are seriously injured in crashes on the nation’s roads each year.

I have a simple question. If the technology exists to make traveling safer, why aren’t we already using it every vehicle coming off a production line?