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Week 2

Autonomous car

This article does analyze various aspects of autonomous cars: the history, technology and obstacles. However, I think this article lacks how currently existing technology has all been a build-up and progression towards autonomous cars. I will explore that for my Wikipedia contribution article.

Week 4: WP article topics

Artificial intelligence: adding how AI is threatening to take human jobs but how there are limitations

AI takeover: adding how AI can cause competition for humans and how it will motivate humans to work harder to fight off the 'AI takeover'.

Autonomous car: adding the progression of autonomous cars and how current technology is being pieced together to create an autonomous car. The current technology may not have been invented with the idea of autonomous cars in mind but it is now being used to implement a self-driving car.

Week 5: assigning article - plan

Chosen article: Autonomous car

Exploring current technology that are being implemented into autonomous cars:

• Cruise control
• Automatic parking
• Lane assist
• Sign recognition

Providing brief history of each feature and how it can be used in autonomous cars as well as some barriers/obstacles.

Taking into account Sophie's comments, I have added a 'future outlook' section, what the next steps of autonomous cars may be and what obstacles exist.

Week 6: Article Improvement Draft

3/14/2018

I initially wanted to explore artificial intelligence in cars that are leading up to autonomous cars. However, I have now chosen to edit the Wikipedia article "Autonomous cars" instead as I believe it would be a more appropriate article for what I want to contribute to Wikipedia. -Patrick Moon

One thing that I noticed that the autonomous car article is that it does not have a section on how autonomous car are becoming developed and I will explore how current technology has been created that builds up to the possibility of autonomous cars.

Progression of autonomous cars

Although autonomous cars are not commercially available yet, there have been features, or functions, that currently exist that contribute to the implementation of autonomous cars, such as cruise control and lane assist.

Cruise control

Cruise Control

Cruise control, which went by many names, such as "Speedostat", "Touchomatic" and "Auto-Pilot", was invented by Ralph Teetor. Cruise control is a function found in many of today's cars. The user, or driver, increases the speed of a car to a certain level and can activate cruise control that allows a servomechanism to maintain a consistent speed that is set by the driver. It is occasionally used on highways or long-distance trips to provide drivers of not having to constantly press on the gas pedal to keep the car going at a uniform speed. Another useful function of cruise control to allow the vehicle to travel under the speed limit. The driver can deactivate cruise control by pressing on either pedal or pressing the same button that the driver uses to activate the function again. Since the time it was invented, cruise control has developed and involved into what is known as "Adaptive Cruise Control", or ACC.

Adaptive Cruise Control is a feature that allows cars to automatically adjust its speed, whether increasing or decreasing, according to the car in front of it to maintain a same distance. It is a feature now found in vehicles manufactured by many large automotive companies, such as Audi, Honda, Mazda, Toyota and Lexus. ACC is even capable of bringing a car to a complete stop if the car in front has stopped moving forward or is stuck in traffic, and will automatically accelerate back up to its designated speed once traffic begins moving again. Autonomous cars will use ACC as a method of communicating vehicle-to-vehicle without a user having to manually adjust the car's speed according to the situation and can reduce traffic.

Automatic Parking

Automatic parking is a feature that enables a car to maneuver itself into a parking spot via parallel, perpendicular or angle parking. It was first implemented on an electric car at INRIA during the 1990's. Current automatic parking is even able to analyze a space and decide whether it is large enough for the car to fit. Although certain systems require a human user to steer and guide the car, there are able to complete the entire process on its own. A large component to driving is being able to park. For fully autonomous cars to be possible, the car must be able to park itself without any assistance from a human user. Currently, human drivers are able to override the system when they get nervous. Automotive companies will have to ensure that the system is reliable for human passengers to completely trust the system in autonomous cars.

Lane Departure Warning

Lane Assist

Lane Assist is a feature designed to warn the driver if the car begins to deviate from the lane it is currently in. It alerts the drivers and prevents distraction and drowsiness. Lane assist is possible through a camera mounted on the front side of a car which captures a moving image of the road ahead. The images are then used to create a digitalized boundary that follows along the lanes on each side of the car. The system will then trigger a warning to the driver if the vehicle begins to get too close to either side of the digital lane boundaries. Previously, the boundaries of a road lane could only be told by visually looking at them. However, cameras are now able to detect them. Once mounted on cars, they are able to communicate with the vehicle to make the vehicle aware of the lane through the lane assist alert system. Once it is able to communicate an autonomous steering system, driverless cars will be able to stay within the lane it is traveling on.

Traffic sign

Sign Recognition

Traffic Sign Recognition is a technology that a vehicle to recognize and comprehend traffic signs through color, shape, and learning based methods. This technology was first invented through a collaborative effort between Mobileye and Continental AG. Although GPS contains the speed limits of each area, this is fixed on a fixed data. Traffic signs can be added or changed at any time and a GPS would not be aware of it unless reprogrammed. An example would be the speed limit being changed due to construction work being done on a certain area of the road. Although humans are able to interpret new traffic signs, the challenge lies in cars being able read and adjust to signs without having a human driver controlling the car. This technology currently exists and has been implemented in numerous car models. Once the traffic sign recognition system is able to communicate with other features, such as adaptive cruise control, the vehicle will be able to adjust, whether it be its speed or having to change lanes, according to the road signs that it is already able to comprehend. However, the technology is not yet perfect and still require a human driver to ensure that the signs that the system is reading is completely correct.

Future Outlook

Technology that contributes towards the development of autonomous cars currently exists. Although features, such as cruise control and sign recognition, have been tested on the road, they are only operated in a human-controlled car. If one of the systems fails, a human driver can override it and continue to operate the car without the use of the advanced technology features. The premise of an autonomous car is that a human driver is not needed. Automobile companies continue to research ways to improve the existing systems as well as develop new technology that would eventually allow the implementation of autonomous cars to the public. One of the largest obstacles for companies to overcome is convincing the general public to trust that a car can operate on its own without any human intervention. Furthermore, implementing more technology into a car can lead to potential issues with information security. Hackers will be able to take controls of technologically enhanced cars, as Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller demonstrated in 2015 when they remotely-hacked a Jeep and caused it to go off-road. A poll that was conducted in January 2018 by Advocates For Highway and Auto Safety showed that 64% of respondents expressed concerns with sharing the road with autonomous cars as they would have to trust their lives in driverless cars and would have to believe that they are safe.

Week 7/8 Peer Review

Sophie's Review (on Artificial Intelligence article - Patrick Moon):

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Everything in the article is related to AI. Each section was very focused and well written. I was distracted by the different articles you edited within AI because it seems like you edited a bunch of different articles.

• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

The writing you did is almost all neutral. One sentence in the beginning did stick out to me as an opinion: "Modern artificial intelligence techniques are pervasive and are too numerous to list here." I would either reword this or maybe take it out unless you want to list some of the techniques which would be cool!

• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

See above comment.

• Check the citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

There are no citations included in the article. I would add those in when you back in to edit! It is important to give all the original work credit.

• Is each fact supported by an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

See above comment.

• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that should be added?

I would assume this information is all up to date but since there are no sources there is no way to tell.

Other comments:

I think you have some great work above! I am just not sure if this is all going to be apart of one article or different articles I would check in with Amy if adding to multiple articles is ok, unless you already did or this is just going to be added to the article "Artificial Intelligence". Otherwise just add in citations. I also liked how you linked other Wikipedia articles!

-Sophie Tallier

Part2:

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

The article builds on itself and relates to the topic of autonomous cars. Nothing in your writing distracted me.

• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

The writing is very factual and neutral. I would maybe change the word "perfect" to describe some of the systems because we dont know if it is going to be perfect. I would just stay away from that word! It is used twice

• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

See above comment.

• Check the citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

Citations are included! I could not click into to them so just make sure when you add them to your actual article they are working for other viewers.

• Is each fact supported by an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

Before finalizing make sure all sources are reliable and are linked to the correct facts.

• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that should be added?

I know the information is up to date but some readers may not. My suggest would be add in timeline or dates so people can references when Lane Assistant and Sign Recognition started and is now.

Other comments:

I think this is a really great topic! You did a really good job at giving the reader enough information so they can understand you topic well. I would maybe add more of a timeline, as I mentioned in the above comment. And I personally think a part on future outlook would be cool! But good job.

-Sophie Tallier