Google is very much serious about having its fleet of robot cars, known as self-driving cars, roaming the streets of the United States. According to the company in a recent report, if they can pass all the required safety tests, then they should be legal.

Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, recently wrote and sent a letter to US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The plan is all about selling cars that drive themselves, and these cars would have no pedals and no wheels, which means the human inside would have little control over what happens during transportation from point A to point B.

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According to Urmson, reported by San Hose Mercury News. if a car passes all required safety tests, then it should be allowed to take to the streets. He went on to add that concerned regulators could set certain conditions that limit use based on safety concerns. It is not yet clear what those conditions are, and as such, we can wait to find out.

In recent months, automakers and regulars have shown interest in accelerating the creation of the rules that will allow self-driving cars to control our streets. The current rules are designed with a human who can control the vehicle, but this needs to be changed because future self-driving cars will rely solely on the vehicle itself.

Google and Urmson are one of the biggest advocates of self-driving technology. They believe it could reduce the amount of road fatalities and accidents. This is yet to be seen, but it is likely true since a self-driving car would not do drastic things such as going over the speed limit unless something went wrong with the software.

Still, we have a problem with this technology, one that might not bode well for us humans.

Automatons technology might turn out to be a huge problem if we rely on them more than anything else. Imagine a world where humans do not know how to drive a car or do other key things because they are being done by artificial intelligence. Wouldn't that be making us less smart and more reliant on things we do not truly need? Think about it.

A security firm recently said self-driving cars are not ready for primetime, according to Enterprise Security Today.