Hi everyone‚ For my summary I chose an article called ’The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars’ by Keith Kirkpatrick. I picked this article because my aim is to do my thesis on the ethics of self-driving cars‚ and Kirkpatrick gives a good general introduction to the topic. In doing so‚ he highlights potential issues‚ as well as the likely benefits that drive the development of self-driving cars. I like the topic because it is a practical ethical problem which has real world implications. And given
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Introduction Self- driving cars use to be a farfetched idea but now that they are here‚ so what does this mean for society as we know it? Will it be the next big thing for transportation or just a fad that will come and go? 11 minor crashes have been caused by Google’s driverless cars. So the question that remains is when will the autonomous vehicles be ready (Ghose‚ 2015). Shladover‚ a researcher at the Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of California‚ Berkeley‚ stated
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car‚ was founded by Jack Taylor in 1957 in a basement of a Missouri Cadillac dealership with only seven cars. Today‚ Enterprise has more than 800‚000 vehicles and nearly 7‚000 locations. Their main business activity is to provide rental vehicles to customers. This privately owned company‚ what is known to be America’s #1-car rental company‚ has dedicated themselves to creating the best customer service throughout their service line in addition to being successful in the industry
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on Road Traffic Accidents Summary An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of speed limits on road traffic accidents. The investigation took place in Sweden during the summers of 1961 and 1962 and lasted for 92 days in each summer. For part of the 92 days general speed limits of 90km/hr or 100km/hr were imposed‚ for the rest of the time they were not. The number of accidents resulting in personal
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BATTERY TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRIC CARS AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES (MOBILE/LAPTOPS) Welingkar Institute Of Management‚ Development and Research‚ Bangalore Submitted By: Ajay Parab PGDM-Business Design (2012-14) Introduction: Battery electric cars are becoming more and more attractive with the advancement of new battery technology (Lithium Ion) that have higher power and energy density. The concept of battery electric vehicles is to use charged batteries on board vehicles for propulsion
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Sally is a future self driving car in 2057 and is like the new developing self driving cars we are see today in 2017. “Americans need to get ready. Self-driving cars will soon be in their rearview mirrors.”(Peterson). Self driving cars will start be more common in the near future. “I said‚ "But it works by itself‚ Mr. Harridge. It scans the road‚ reacts properly to obstacles‚ humans‚ and other cars‚ and remembers routes to travel."(Asimov 3). The new self driving cars are more likely to scan the road
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Edelman Award Paper Revenue Management Saves National Car Rental By M.K Geraghty and Ernest Johnson In the January/February 1997 issue of INTERFACES magazine‚ M.K. Geraghty and Ernest Johnson were presented as finalists of the Franz A. Edelman award for their presentation on a state-of-the-art Revenue Management System that would turn a huge money losing rental car company‚ National Rental Car‚ into a profitable business within two years. In 1993‚ General Motors took a $744 million dollar
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Abstract Accidents in the aviation industry can occur due to many factors. An aviation accident is the worst nightmare of every pilot or passenger that has ever ridden in an aircraft. Although air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation‚ accidents do happen with dramatic and terrifying results. The causes of these aviation accidents vary greatly depending on specific circumstances and problems that may develop during the flight process. Weather is one of the factors that can influence
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Airline Accident Investigation Prcedure "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea‚ it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness‚ incapacity or neglect." -- Capt A. G. Lamplugh‚ British Aviation Insurance Group According to the Air Transport Association‚ a person could fly every day for 3‚859 years without being involved in an aircraft accident. That’s an accident rate of one accident for every 1.4 million flights‚ according to a CNN report‚ based
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story about self-driving cars. It shares many similarities to what is happening right now and what will happen in the future. There are even articles talking about self-driving cars that share many similarities to what happened in Sally. There are pro’s and cons to self-driving cars‚ and these articles feature both. The negative of self-driving cars are similar in both articles. Both passages discuss how self driving cars help the disabled travel. “Self-driving cars could mean transportation
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