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Questions:
1. What kind of technology are transportation vehicles to our society?
2. What do autonomous cars offer to society?
3. What is the ultimate goal in building autonomous cars?
4. What do some engineers predict for autonomous cars in the mid 2030's?
5. Are the technologies of autonomous cars deeply flawed? Explain your answer.
6. Will we ever be safe with a robot behind the wheel of car?
7. Who was Elaine Herzberg?
8. How many fatal car crashes are there daily in the US?
9. Currently in 2022 how many Americans are afraid to drive an autonomous car?
10. Give three reasons why autonomous vehicles are being built.
11. Do autonomous cars really promise safety? Explain your answer.
12. How many people die in car crashes in the US on a yearly basis?
13. What is the main cause of these crashes?
14. What is the hope of installing a computer and software into a car?
15. Explain at least three ways autonomous cars could change the paradigm of transportation in the US?
16. How is driving a car rated on a scale of difficulty? Explain your answer.
17. How rare is a driving death? (Give your answer in terms of miles driven and in hours driven.) Miles Hours
18. How high a bar should the standard be for autonomous cars be? Explain your answer.
19. How did the Pentagon become involved in developing self-driving vehicles?
20. Give the results of the three challenge car races that the Pentagon sponsored?
21. What should the safety standard be for autonomous vehicles compared to humans?
22. Why are businesses like Google and Uber becoming involved in developing autonomous cars?
23. When investigators studied the reasons why the Tempe, AZ crash happened, a number of discoveries were made. Explain at least three reasons why the fatal crash happened.
24. What is the scale that auto engineers use to divide the range of autonomous driving? Explain the traits of each of the levels on the scale.
25. Why do some automotive industry leaders feel that the term, "autopilot", is misleading?
26. Tell the story of Joshua Brown and his final outcome.
27. List and explain the three main tasks that autonomous car design must solve
28. Computers and software are not good at perception. In 2010 what technology was being developed that helped fill this technology gap?
30. What has to be done to computers to make them good at facial recognition?
31. What is the problem with a 98% success rate in facial recognition when that rate is applied to autonomous cars?
32. Give an example of how an autonomous car failed to recognize a person on the side of a road.
33. What is the problem with computer software in a car and planning a route on a road?
34. Over the last few years what is happening to the gap between autonomous cars and human driving?
35. At the end of the video the narrator reviews some on the impact that autonomous cars will have on humans and society. Give two impacts and explain these impacts.
36. React to the ethical question that is presented at the end of the video. How comfortable will humans be with autonomous cars killing people as long as these cars kill fewer people than humans do?