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Technology is ever changing, and cars are not immune to these changes. In an attempt to make roadways safer, car manufacturers are on their way to making fully autonomous vehicles in order to decrease the prevalence of accidents on roadways and increase safety for all passengers. Many vehicles already have features such as parking assist, lane assist, or blind spot detectors, to name a few. Features such as these in cars are evidence that vehicles are soon on their way to becoming fully autonomous.
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If you look at it in terms of fatal accidents and miles driven,
humans are actually very reliable machines. We need to
create an even more reliable machine." -Nair
Project Updates:
10.22.2020
Today we were able to export the code onto our Activity Bot and able to get it to perform a few functions in Propeller C.
Some things we were able to accomplish during this lab were:
Today we were able to export the code onto our Activity Bot and able to get it to perform a few functions in Propeller C.
Some things we were able to accomplish during this lab were:
- Have the Activity Bot drive forward or backwards a certain distance and then stop
- Have the Activity Bot drive forward or backward a certain distance and at a certain speed and then stop
- Have the Activity Bot drive around for a set amount of time, while placing random objects in its way and avoid these objects, redirecting itself by going right or left (alternating each time) to avoid the object
11.01.2020
Today, we were able to work on updating the website and look into the history of self-driving cars and see how close we, as a society are, to creating a fully autonomous vehicle, along with which companies are most likely to create the fully autonomous vehicle.
Along with looking into the history of the self-driving car, we also looked into the ethics of self-driving cars--most specifically, the famous philosophical Trolley Problem, and what can happen at the time of an instance such as this, if the car truly is fully autonomous.
Today, we were able to work on updating the website and look into the history of self-driving cars and see how close we, as a society are, to creating a fully autonomous vehicle, along with which companies are most likely to create the fully autonomous vehicle.
Along with looking into the history of the self-driving car, we also looked into the ethics of self-driving cars--most specifically, the famous philosophical Trolley Problem, and what can happen at the time of an instance such as this, if the car truly is fully autonomous.
11.02.2020
Today we worked on updating our website. This included importing the code we knew worked in lab, such as the waypoint following code called "Ping".
Today we worked on updating our website. This included importing the code we knew worked in lab, such as the waypoint following code called "Ping".
11.03.2020
Today, we met up in person to work on the coding portion of the project.
More research was done about the history of self-driving cars.
Today, we met up in person to work on the coding portion of the project.
More research was done about the history of self-driving cars.
11.08.2020
Today, we met in person to finish up our presentation and begin practicing.
Today, we met in person to finish up our presentation and begin practicing.
11.16.2020
Today we had our presentation, it went well!
Today we had our presentation, it went well!
11.20.2020
Today, we got half way done with the essay.
Today, we got half way done with the essay.
11.24.2020
Today we finished the essay.
Today we finished the essay.
