If the correct information for Mr. Driver had initially shown up , none of this would have happened. A conviction of Mr. Driver would only confirm his legal rights had been violated by the police officers and our judicial system. The case of Dan Driver was complex in that it didn't just involve a computer error, but it also involved a Constitutional right of a U.S. citizen. In the end, I feel that the computer error was the primary issue and that the error was the ultimate factor in the final judgment of the case. This just goes to show how much our society relies on computers today, and this is only going to increase in the future.
Computers have the potential to be destructive and most beneficial at the same time.
Computers enable us to access a plenitude of information in a short amount of time. This is incredibly helpful to doctors who can access medical records immediately, but this can be incredibly damaging as in the case of Dan Driver. With the click of a button on a police computer, his life was dramatically changed. The age of the computer is still young and all of the bugs have not been worked out and may never will be. As far as computers go, we will have to be patient and see what the future technology has in store for us.