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Driverless Cars

Driverless Cars. Darshan Patel CSCE 390 April 11, 2012. What is Driverless Cars?. Capable of sensing its environment and navigating on its own Divers choose destination. Driverless cars are moving closer to becoming a reality

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Driverless Cars

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  1. Driverless Cars Darshan Patel CSCE 390 April 11, 2012

  2. What is Driverless Cars? • Capable of sensing its environment and navigating on its own • Divers choose destination

  3. Driverless cars are moving closer to becoming a reality • Politicians in several U.S. states rush to get such cars on the roads • Nevada currently allows driverless cars to operate on the state's road networks as long as they have a special license plate. • Companies developing driverless cars • Google • Stanford University

  4. Advantages/Disadvantages • Advantages • Improved safety, • Better fuel efficiency • Not affected by human error • Freedom from the boredom of long drives • Disadvantages • Excessive cost • Many may distrust driverless systems • Possibility of computer malfunctions and misjudgments

  5. AMC Code • 1.1 Contribute to society and human well-being • “An essential aim of computing professionals is to minimize negative consequences of computing systems, including threats to health and safety” • “computing professionals who design and develop systems must be alert to, and make others aware of, any potential damage to the local or global environment”

  6. References • http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328585.300-driverless-cars-ready-to-hit-our-roads.html • http://willcoston.home.comcast.net/~willcoston/carindex.html • http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics

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