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Quick teaching topic: self-driving cars
This presentation centers around videos of self-driving cars. I use it to illustrate the role of research and prototypes in product development, as an example of embedded computers -- the Internet of things -- and as an (unconventional) example of an expert system.
Trip to Taco Bell
The long run?
Fully autonomous vehicle
The short run – incremental automation
Ford – self braking and parkingAutomatic braking from 10 manufacturers
Elon Musk interview on sensors and collision avoidance
Tesla is beta testing Auto driving now and it is being pushed out to owners of Tesla cars that have the proper sensors during October.
Do you know what “beta test” and “pushed out” mean?
Test drive video (1m 53s)
Berlin Free University self-driving car
Audi, autonomous race car
On a track
On Pikes Peak
Audi, programming a race car
An expert system
Elon Musk: Tesla will have le+vel 4 cars in 2018
CBS News video from CES (4m 7s)
Where we are and what we hope to gain
Self-study questions
Find and summarize articles on these advantages of self-driving cars:• Car sharing• Improved safety• Less paved area for roads and parking• Energy savings
Resources
• LA Times article on Audi• NY Times article on self-driving cars• Fortune article on self-driving cars and more from Google• NY Times article on MIT folding car (related)• BBC article on self-driving cars in the UK• Thoughtful essay on the future of self-driving cars• How much road and map infrastructure would we need?• Survey article