I am writing about Science or Technology: Promise or Peril on self-driving cars. I am writing about the advantages and disadvantages about a car that self drives. While there are many advantages of a self driving car, there are still some underlying disadvantages. The title of my first article is "Just how close to commercial reality is a self-driving car" and the source is fortune.com. I found this article on Ebscohost which I find to have a lot of great articles for what I am writing about. Some of the relevant information I got from this article in particular is some people are concerned as to who would be responsible if there was an accident. Also according to this article, Nissan promises to have a self-driving car by 2020. Also in the brand new Audi Q7, there is a feature called "heavy traffic jam assist" which self drives the car under 40 mph in heavy traffic. 30 mph is pretty fast to me so you can see that we are already heading to that direction of self-driven cars. This author does not have any argument do they do help show some of the benefits of self driven cars. The information it adds is that the reader can know a little background information on self-driven cars if they already didn't know about it. I chose this source because it gives a nice basic understanding of some of the steps we are taking for self driving cars. Audi refers to the assistance as "pilot driving". However the reason I did select this article specially is because it gives the reader a good "base" of understanding. If I had to sum up this article in a short quote I would say that "robotic logic must be able to decide safely and instantaneously whether to turn, accelerate or brake. For my second article, the title is "The Road to Self Driving Cars" and the source is consumer reports.com. I also found this article in Ebscohost which I find a lot of great articles. Some of the relevant information in this article is 90% of crashes are because of human error. Also they said automotive makers want to create a system where when you are about to crash or are drifting out of your lane or falling sleep, your car will take over until you can continue. They are going to call it forward collision warning. Again, this is another good base for my paper to have the read have abetter understanding of the topic at hand. If I had to summarize this article in one short quote it would be "Adaptive cruise control helps your car automatically maintain
a set distance behind one in front. Though
it has been around for some time, newer
systems have more capabilities."
