Have you ever thought about how nice it would be to have a car that drives itself? Well now, companies are making driverless cars so that people don’t have to drive themselves. We should be able to have driverless cars in the future because first of all, they take out a lot of danger in driving, speed limits could be increased, and there will be way less traffic jams. Opponents might argue that self-driving cars don’t completely take accidents out of the picture. According to the leading…
Self-driving cars Self-Driving Cars are becoming the newest cause for controversy on whether or not they should be driven in public. There is an argument for both, but Self-Driving cars should not be driven in public. These cars are going to make traffic even more dangerous. First, an argument that many people have said is that the technology just is not safe. Huge improvements need to be made for these cars to be able to be driven safely on the streets. They also rely primarily on…
Importing cars into the U.S is a lot harder than it needs to be. The U.S. customs and border protection makes laws with the department of transportation regulating what cars can come into the states. I personally feel that some of these laws are pointless. Some cars in the JDM market aren’t allowed into the U.S. for reasons such as headlights, bumpers, seatbelts, and other minor things. “If you want to bring these cars in you have three options. You can bring them to compliance, bring in as a…
Team Member Contributions On this project I worked with Savanna Addis and Jared Liddle. They were awesome partners on this project. In the first stages; Savanna came up with the starting idea for our car as well as the main points of our test plan. In the days that followed directly after we adjusted the plans and drawings, but the work was still based off of Savanna’s original ideas. Jared ended up building our first car. This car was a great start to help us figure out some problems in our…
As many know, a Venus flytrap (or Dionaea muscipula seed) achieves its energy not only through photosynthesis, but through devouring its prey (dragon flies, mosquitoes, etc.). The Venus flytrap’s “mouth” (trapping mechanism) is very rough and is always green. This part of the organism’s body is also covered with a fragrant nectar that attracts its prey towards it. When the prey reaches the Venus flytrap, it begins to feed off of the nectar. Once touching its leaf, the prey sets off a twenty…
Bilger, Burkhard. "Has the Self-Driving Car Arrived at Last?" The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2013 Burkard, a two-time winner of The National Magazine awards writes a thought provoking article about the possibility of an accident and delay free commute made reality by a ground breaking invention, Google’s driverless car. This revolutionary idea stemmed from Google X, a semi-secret lab for experimental technologies. Burkhard states that someday a self-driving car may “save your life” (par7) as Americans…
Do We Need Driverless Cars? Many people believe that driverless cars could transform the roads. If successful, they could enhance safety; conserve energy and better protection to the environment (Cimons 1). Driving is how you get things done. The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused an explosion of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and showrooms (Schumpeter). Yet it also stops…
Being safe and secure aren’t the only problem with autonomous cars. As an ever-increasing number of driverless cars begin to show up on the streets, many people will start to lose employment. Joblessness will crawl up on individuals who make a fair living by driving things around. In the book “Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead” it says that “driverless cars will sound the final death knell to the jobs of roughly 233,700 cabbies and chauffeurs employed in the United States.” Some…
For years, scientists and researchers have studied ways to understand and describe dreams. They have tested many theories and hypotheses to answer the many questions that surround dreams. Strauch and Meier describe dreams as “…a world of experiences, where, seemingly separated from our waking lives, we lead a second existence” (1). That being said, how is the brain able to remember these other lives lived in a dream-like state? The brain is a complex set of nerves, so many factors play a part in…
Does it seem like your fur baby sleeps a lot? In fact all dogs, regardless of size or breed tend to sleep most of the time and we got an explanation about that. It is safe to say that huge part of their lives are spent being asleep. Dogs tend to sleep half the day away and are only active about 20% of the day. Unlike human, dogs don’t have the same sleeping patterns and their patterns vary according to different factors not to mention that they have heightened senses which make them alert most…