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Will our children or grand-children need to know how to drive cars? The first self-driving cars appeared in 1980s with Carneige Mellon University 's Navlab[16] and ALV[13][14] projects in 1984, and Bundeswehr University Munich 's EUREKA Prometheus[15] project in 1987. Since then, numerous companies, researches have developed working prototypes, including Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Peugeot, Nissan, Google and so on. However, the biggest breakthrough in media on autonomous car started in 2014 and especially

Éclatant City Paris, France is truly an incredible city. While it is best known for its tourist attractions, including the Eiffel Tower, Paris is so much more than this. Despite being relatively cold all throughout the year, the warmest being in the high sixties, Paris has a population of around 2,241,400. Paris is a very historical city, founded in the 3rd century BC by the Gauls. Some tourist attractions in Paris include the Louvre museum, Notre Dame, and Disneyland Paris. While Paris is great

THE 50 MPH MAN: The Story of Ted Jensen ~ The story of the most EXTRAORDINARY man to ever live starts at the most ORDINARY place: the bus stop. 25-year-old Ted Jensen sat on a rusty bench in the pouring rain, waiting for his bus to come. He was about to go to a job-interview in the city, but his luck would change soon enough. The dirty old bus came into view, seeming to drive much faster than the speed limit. Ted noticed that something was wrong, but before he could think of what it was, the bus

to the article by Patrick Frank, “Public art is art that you might encounter without intending to; it exists in a public place, accessible to everyone” (Pg. 480) If this definition is true, all kinds of advertisements are great forms of Public art. Street, high way, TV, Twitter, YouTube, all of these kind of “Public spaces” are the hotbed of advertisement. Thus, advertisement contains the element the art have, it is a work that created by the people who want others to feel or think what they feel or

lacked meat. His baggy pants rested on the knees showing the brand of his Hanes boxers, which covered his butt. With the pants almost touching the floor, he grabbed her by the hands and kept her close enough to hide her face from anyone else on the street. For a moment, I thought he was hiding her identity for the way he firmly hugged her and concealed her entire body. The girl on the silver bench glanced over the shoulder and quickly came back to the pages. She was not reading them, but, staring

Assignment 3: Urban Design Sketchbook Narrative My observation focuses around Berkeley, with an emphasis on streets on the perimeter of campus. The first section is on Bancroft Way west of Bowditch. The street is a two-lane one-way street, with parking available each side. The parking spaces are regulated not by parking meters, but rather by a parking permit dispenser. There are metal poles next to each parking space, which most likely used to be parking meters. The parking fee is a whopping $3

My hand reaches for the door handle. The cold metal sends a shiver down my spine. Two steps and my body is out the door. A gust of wind makes my footing unsteady, without thinking I lunge for the building for support. I need this fresh air, the office was suffocating. A walk on the sidewalk is just the break I need. The stoplight turns red. I turn my head left, then right. The coast is clear. My legs scurry across the road. Safe. The familiar sidewalks lead me past the newspaper, the post office

Street Traffic, Safety, and Accidents Ayooluwase E. Akindele ETEC 562 Social Technology and the Sociocultural Aspects of Learning 2016/10/03 Dr. Giuliana Cucinelli   Street Traffic, Safety, and Accidents Roads are the backbone and essential modes of transportation, providing many different supports for human civilization. Among the early and inexpensive technologies available for developing comprehensive traffic, management proposals are Road capacity, traffic sign (i.e. pavement markings, road

INTRODUCTION: The evolution of wireless technologies in modern days helps to utilize these kind of technology in many applications like vehicle safety application, a wireless data communication between the vehicles and also between the vehicles and other infrastructure. The objectives of vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications are to avoid the vehicle crashes, to examine the technological issues that may affect this short range communications, characterise the communication

Fahima woke up before her alarm went off. Today was a big day. It was her first day as a second grader at her new school, East Pennsboro Elementary. She got out of bed, brushed her teeth, got dressed, and put on her headscarf. When she got downstairs, she saw that her dad was making her favorite breakfast, pancakes. She sat down at the table, and her dad gave her a big good morning hug. “Are you excited for your first day at school, Fahima?” he asked with a smile. Fahima nodded. Although she