Autopilot

The second most prominent element on Google 's "About" page is its mission statement. After scanning past the impressive graphic that displays the company 's ubiquity in full force, the words "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" are the first to greet the reader. And for almost 20 years, it 's been succeeding. In 2010, they unveiled their most audacious project yet - the fully autonomous car of the future. With safety and its…

Are self-driving cars safe? As technology advances, cars are becoming more enhanced and innovative. For instance, Tesla Motors launched a vehicle that is electric and drives itself, with the supervision of a human. However, other manufacturers/ companies, like Google and Uber, want to get rid of the steering wheel and pedals, to make the vehicle fully driverless. In the article, “When robots and humans take turns at the wheel,” Russ Mitchell explains the possible safety outcomes of…

Recent researchers have found that the blue-enriched light, that is built in to gadgets like TV’s smartphones, tablets and laptops. These type of technologies can take away from the body’s release of melatonin at night. Melatonin is an important hormone that contributes to the regulation of your internal clock, informing your body when it is dark outside and when you are sleepy. The blue light can disengage that process, making that extremely difficult for a person to maintain a normal sleep…

metal. I throw my car into reverse, before jumping out to assess the damage. An otherwise pristine, navy blue BMW is blemished, two chips of paint missing to reveal the white plaster underneath. Acutely aware of the crowded parking lot, I revert to autopilot, parking my car with the careful precision I had not employed since my license test six months earlier. I slowly crawl out of my car to peek at the scratch one more time. Unfortunately, it had not magically disappeared. The driver did not…

A multitude of illicit substances and varieties of alcohol consumed, since early that afternoon, the Frat leaders were working on autopilot. Or was that their normal state of mind, and they'd have struggled to achieve the same situation sober. Whatever, the drugs had released their inhibitions, as they always did, and increased their libido's, which was evidenced by the raging, throbbing erections that met Sofia White, without them having had to warm up or be touched. The drugs enhancing…

being conscious of something means being fully aware of something (Farlex Free Dictionary). David Eaglemen, who wrote Incognito, states that even though our "consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain, our brains run on autopilot, and the conscious mind has little access to the giant and mysterious factory that runs below it" (5). So, when our mind hears a creative slogan, the subconscious mind plays the biggest role in how the slogan is…

The readings this week covered a great deal of information. In readings form the book by Murphy and Dillion, Interviewing in Action in a Multicultural World, a wide range of working with clients was discussed from ethical standards and dilemmas to confidentiality to endings and transitions to self-care for the clinician to ongoing education (Murphy and Dillon, 2011). In between all of this, was, again, stressing the importance of empathy, cultural and ethnic differences, and making sure, as a…

to do was immerse myself into anything not school-related. Gradually, I became careless about turning in assignments and project, and became the master of procrastination. I was on a solo flight, oblivious to the incoming storms. My life was on autopilot. My worried parents and teachers struggled to understand the decline in performance. When they questioned my mental health, I was jolted out of my daze of indifference. I expected myself to always be competitive and driven, yet longed to be…

When entering junior high, we were constantly reminded by teachers, parents, and school administrators how different it was from elementary school. It was supposed to be the start of a transition from childhood to young adulthood, and though I discounted many of these sentiments at the time, looking back it certainly was. In an instant, it seemed, everyone started swearing and the hallways began to smell of a putrid mixture of not enough or too much cologne. For the first time we had to change…

The plot centers on a robot called WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) whose job is to collect garbage on Earth due to years of mass over consumption. After years of collecting garbage, WALL-E (voice Ben Burtt) grows a certain behavior as he collects things to decorate his home and develops an affection for ‘Hello Dolly’ which he watches on a VHS tape time and time again. From the video, WALL-E seemingly learns the ideas of holding hand and falling in love. One day,…