Driver-Assisted and Driverless Cars
One day people may wonder why earlier generations ever entrusted machines as dangerous as cars to operators as fallible as humans.
~ The Economist, April 2013
In an important sense, any injury that results from our ethics setting [like employing an algorithm that saves a child over an elderly person in an inevitable collision] may be [considered] premeditated if it's foreseen.
~ Patrick Lin of Wired, August 2014
Create a new PowerPoint file naming the file "Internet_YourLastName"; add the ten slides described below using MS PowerPoint 2010 or later. Please note that you may need MS PowerPoint 2013 (on a PC) to complete the trimming requirement for slide 4. You will be graded on your ability to demonstrate an understanding of the module content, your ability to use the skills you learned in the Atomic Learning: PowerPoint Advanced Tutorials listed in this module, and your creativity
Title (slide 1) - Include a title, your name, and your picture. Apply a style to your picture.
Driver-Assisted Cars (slide 2) - Listen to By The Time Your Car Goes Driverless, You Won't Know The Difference. Download a copy of this podcast from NPR. Be sure it is saved in a location you can access from PowerPoint (e.g. hard drive, USB drive, etc.). Your browser likely will save it in the Downloads folder of your computer by default. Feel free to move it to a different folder, if desired. Insert the sound file on this slide, and place two bookmarks in it.
• Place one near the 1 minute, 30 second mark, when Alexis Madrigal says, "There are a lot of steps...between Henry Ford's Model T and Google's autonomous Model X."
• Place another at the beginning of a quote you like in the podcast. Type the text of this quote on the slide.
Replace the default audio image of a speaker for the sound file on the slide with the Google's_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car.jpg image, which is in the same location on Canvas where you found the directions for this assignment. Left click the image to download it.
• Above the image, place the text Alexis Madigral (NPR Fresh Air podcast, 2014).
• Below the image, place the text Google Self-Driving Car (Wikimedia Commons image).
Audio and Transcript - https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/03/04/285740673/by-the-time-your- car-goes-driverless-you-wont-know-the-difference
Image - posted in Canvas and online at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Google's_Lexus_RX_450h_Self- Driving_Car.jpg
Fully Driverless Cars (slide 3) - Watch the TED Talk Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road. On this slide, distinguish between driver-assisted and driverless cars. Which does Chris Urmson feel is superior? Why?
Video and Transcript - https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road?languag e=en#t-686753
Technology Overview (slide 4) - Download the video How do driverless cars work-- SD.mp4, located in the same location in Canvas where you found the directions for this assignment. Insert it on this slide, trim it to a start time of approximately 00.33.680, and place the text (CC-BY-3.0 James Armstrong, 2015) below it.
Video - posted in Canvas and online at https://vimeo.com/117475024
Technology Components (slide 5) - Study this infographic by The Economist. On this slide, use a SmartArt graphic of type List to summarize the six main technology components depicted in the infographic, and briefly within your graphic, state the main function of each component.
Infographic - https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full- width/images/print-edition/20120901_TQC976_0.png
Benefits (slide 6) - Read Six reasons to love, or loathe, autonomous cars and feel free to conduct your own research. On slide 6, list four reasons to love autonomous cars.
You may use bullets, SmartArt graphics, etc. Clearly indicate the reason you believe is most important in any way you like (bold text, animation, arrow shape pointing to it, etc.).
Article - https://www.cnet.com/news/six-reasons-to-love-or-loathe-autonomous-cars/
Risks (slide 7) - Read Six reasons to love, or loathe, autonomous cars and feel free to conduct your own research. On slide 7, list four reasons to hate autonomous cars. You may use bullets, SmartArt graphics, etc. Clearly indicate the reason you believe is most important in any way you like (bold text, animation, arrow shape pointing to it, etc.).
Article - https://www.cnet.com/news/six-reasons-to-love-or-loathe-autonomous-cars/
Public Opinion (slide 8) - In a 2013 survey, Intel asked respondents whether or not they would like to live in a driverless city. On this slide, create a pie chart showing what percentage answered yes and what percentage answered no.
Survey Results - https://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/02/10/the-vote-is-in- citizens-support-smart-cities-with-driverless-cars-public-service-drones-and- surroundings-that-sense-activities
Your Opinion (slide 9) - Would you ride in a driverless car? Explain.
Closing (Slide 10) - Have a clear ending to your presentation. This could look similar to your title slide.
NOTE: When sending a presentation containing audio and/or video to someone, you can test whether or not the audio and video are likely to be found and to play properly on the recipient's computer by deleting the original audio and video files from your computer and then checking that they still play properly in your presentation.