Autopilot

Sweaty palm clinch, with knots in my stomach. My eyes darting through the crowd of nameless faces. I inch closer to the stage. “Coming to the stage, MO’NIQUE!” I exhale a final nervous breath, releasing all inhibitions and walking onto the stage becoming Mo’nique. Well, the awkward tween version of her, at least. In the Little Miss Continental Pageant, we were required to introduce ourselves as a well known African American woman, answer questions about current events and raise money for a…

The Many Faces of Alice Alice Lee Hudson, while technically not the main character of her featured film, is the primary subject of which the movie is based around. Surprisingly enough, John Carpenter’s The Ward stars everyone but Alice as the women of North Bend Psychiatric Hospital fight for their lives against an unknown demonic entity. As each of the girls begin disappearing from their ward one by one, it is revealed that the aforementioned entity is actually Alice and that the other patients…

been immense. With respect to the Gartner’s Hype cycle we could say we are at the pre-peak of the Inflated expectations stage. Autonomous cars can fall in two categories, first being something that evolution of vehicles brought in; e.g. Tesla’s autopilot mode. Second being Google’s/ Uber’s…

it looks like now. The captain pulled himself together to do the right thing and work with Wall-E and EVE to get the plant back to go home. He ended up making some of the biggest decisions in the movie. One of the things included turning off the autopilot to save everyone on the ship. The captain made the decision to tell everyone what was going on, this started to bring people to their senses towards the end of the movie. While the robots are throwing the ship around you see the true colors of…

In spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India - Book Review The nation of India is one of the world’s largest democracies, a regional and upcoming world superpower that is now often compared to the mighty China. Its importance to the international community is magnanimous, but often neglected. The book In spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India is a great and illuminating work on the vast and diverse nature of India. The book is written by the British Edward Luce who among…

accidents by 94% after the product is fully optimized. Tesla’s self-driving car uses a computer vision detector system not far different from Google’s self-driving car. The most recent issue faced by Tesla was concerning a fatal accident in which the autopilot function of the car failed to detect a truck ahead. The vehicle’s computer system failed to detect the obstacle ahead resulting in the…

could cause the erratic dreams from the Prefrontal Cortex being the area of reasoning and planning. As for Non REM dreams with the brain being inactive, everyday or repetitive activities would be dreamed with your brain being very similarly in an autopilot state. (Grison, Heatherton & Gazzangia, Chapter 3, 2015). Typically dreams are not remembered either being REM or Non REM dreams. This is because dreaming is part of an unconscious, sleeping state. Even though most dreams are forgotten there…

Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater coursing through her veins. It does not take a genius to make that inference. Born on the eighth of February, 1990, Bethany Hamilton’s story is known amongst people globally. What started as an ordinary morning for the thirteen year old “soul surfer” as she calls it, escalated to one of the most known shark attacks. It was a morning like any other when Bethany was woken up by her mother Cheri when questioned if she wanted…

Imagine looking out a car window on the parkway and seeing an empty car. That would freak me out too, but that could soon become routine. Accredited with over 30 years of covering the automotive industry, Paul A. Eisenstein, in his article, “Hands off! Riding along in Ford’s autonomous Fusion”, describes his experience and Ford’s future plans in the autonomous car industry. Eisenstein’s purpose is to inform the general public about the awe inspiring advancement and the effects of this technology…

When a car is out on the road, the driver has the responsibility to make moral and ethical decisions concerning not only his or her safety, but also the safety of others. Similarly, fully automatic self-driving cars would be expected to do the same. Designing self-driving cars is a difficult process as many ethical decision-making codes have to be programmed into the cars. Ethical principles have to be reviewed carefully before they are implemented into the self-driving cars so that the public…