Autonomous Driving: Future of Automotives

In this assignment we will further look into the legal problems regarding autonomous driving and its application. As the technology of AD vehicles develops extremely fast today, the build of legal framework may not be able to catch up the speed and fully take care of the newly technologies onto the market, and that’s where problems might happen. After viewing several materials, I found that the main ethic and legal problems can be summarized as following: 1.        Liability: Liability is probably the most major ethical issue regarding autonomous vehicles. Who to blame, and who should be responsible for accident if crash happens is always the hot topic among several agencies: engineers, manufactures, salers, users, pedestrians, governments or even law makers are all involved in this topic. If any of these accidents happens, often it is unclear or hard to decide who to blame. 2.        Society: Say, if large number of AD vehicles are released and used in the traffic system, w

After talking so much about technologies and ethical problem regarding autonomous driving, let's now take a look into what drivers, or normal people feel about driving, or autonomous driving. The questions asked are: Do you drive? Why or why not? Would you be interested in having an autonomous vehicle? Why or why not? What do you feel about making vehicles autonomous? I invited ten people to ask these questions, some of them are middle aged working people, some of them are college students. The answers are as below: Graduated Student: No I do not drive. I live in a crowded city, it's more convenient to take public transportations. If I have the change I will maybe drive for fun. And I am not interested in autonomous driving, because then what's the fun of driving. I don't have any specific feelings about autonomous driving vehicles, it's kind of cool as long as it does not hit me. College Student: Yes I drive. I learned it before I went to college, an

After some technological blogs, for this week's assignment, I will look further into myself through a personality assessment from ITP Metrics. From some questions regarding daily life and the way I handle stuffs, I got a report for my personality analysis. Here is the summary: Extraversion: My extraversion level is slighter higher than moderate. I am more likely to find myself alternating between managing multiple activities at once and finding time to take it easy and relax. I prefer to take charge and lead the group to success in a team, but I should not take over too much. I tend to be joyful and optimistic. I enjoy routine, stable work, and I am easy to make friends. I tend to have the ability to work both in a team or individually.  Emotionality: My emotionality level is low, which indicates that I am unlikely to become worried or stressed about achieving the team's objectives or completing your tasks. I do not easily lose my temper and am able to avoid most team conf