Autopilot

Within the next two years, Tesla and Google will each be releasing their own autonomic automobiles to consumers. They are designed to allow people to travel without the necessity to maneuver a vehicle. This form of transportation will be accessible for the youth and the elderly. There will no longer be a need for designated drivers, a concern for texting while driving, or the stress of other reckless drivers and road rage. Commuting between places can be a time to catch up on some rest with…

Technology is something that is constantly being used in our lives. The endless usage and continuous change of these tools are of equal importance to our mere existence. Each and every day, it seems as though there are new machines and devices with which we become captivated. In the endless attempts to make human life easier, we tend to opt for these new and evolving devices over the old-fashioned way of doing things – doing them without the use of modern technology. In All Can Be Lost: The Risk…

Before we get into conflict that, computers maintain the stability of an aircraft without the need of pilots, let us first explain, what is the meaning of aircraft stability? In addition, how there is an unstable aircrafts? Stability is how aircraft corrects for conditions like turbulence or flight control inputs , in another meaning , stability is the ability to keep the aircrafts in the chosen altitude and for aircraft, there are two types of general stability: static and dynamic. In civil…

peculiar. Everyone breaks off from this path at some point, but almost all return and as described in Waking Life become nothing more than ants in an ant colony “going through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant autopilot.” Individuality is such a challenging thing to attain because of this. Once broken off, people view themselves as social pariahs and no one desires to be an outcast. Social outcasts, however, are always individuals. To be an individual, one must…

words bring me such inspiration then you should share them with the rest of the world rather than a select few. When you speak out it benefits anyone who listens. So find the courage to speak and inspire those around you. If you want to go into autopilot and let your life run you that's fine. But why not take charge? Why not show life and the people in it who's boss? The strength is inside you to speak out and ask for things that will make you happy. When life decides to walk all over you get up…

Sci-fi Stories and Modern Technology Collide Recently in California two separate accidents involving self-driving cars have brought up many questions on the safety of this new technology. Many people could be reminded of Ray Bradbury's short story The Veldt when thinking of accidents involving new technology such as self-driving vehicles. In the short story the children use their Happy Life Home (Bradburry) against their parents, ultimately leading to their demise. The self-driving car…

Leverage Ratios and DuPont The leverage ratios indicate a company’s risk level associated with debt on the company’s balance sheet. According to Table 3, Tesla’s debt ratios from 2012 to 2014 all indicate the company assets are financed through debt, with 2012 being the highest of the three years. In 2013, the debt ratio was the lowest of all three years, which is due to the Gigafactory being built and Tesla paying off the last of the $465 million dollar loan the Department of Energy. The…

In the op-ed “Barack Obama: Self-driving, Yes, But Also Safe” published in Pittsburgh Sun-Gazette on September 19, 2016, president Obama states that autonomous vehicles will transfer many lives potentially. He also said, “American innovation is driving bigger changes.” America is changing every day and new invention is increasing. He points out how helpful it will be too many Americans such as “senior’s citizens and Americans with disabilities.” He then said that these autonomous vehicles will…

given the opportunity to practice this. If he had it might have allowed the PM to be more aware of the dynamic and ready for a situation like this one (NTSB, 2014). The second example was the fact that the pilot flying (PF) was unfamiliar with the autopilot and auto-throttle systems of the Boeing 777. Due to a failure in the training department the PF’s incorrect understand of these systems led inadvertently deactivate the automatic airspeed control (NTSB,…

When growing up, just about every child has some grandiose yet profoundly naïve dream for themselves, be it an astronaut, cowboy, the president, or even the regional manager of a gas station. I, of course, was no exception to this rule; much to my mother’s disappointment, my dream was to be a rock star. The idea of being on stage wowing crowds of people thrilled me immensely; however, even as a child, I understood this dream of mine to be incredibly unlikely, which made my moment of playing a…