the wheel. The car will include the latest technology, including GPS systems and smart traffic control, which will get the customer from point A to point B upon request and with minimal delays. The concept of self-driving cars has become very popular in the recent years. About 10 years ago, people were suspect about the safety and overall feasibility of the self-driving machines, let alone self-driving taxis. Today, as more tech companies, like Google, are coming up with these cars and testing their
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ROAD SAFETY IN BANGLADESH Introduction: Deaths and injuries as a result of road traffic accidents are recognized as global health issue. It is estimated that road crashes kill 1.2 million people and injure 20-50 million annually (daily road tolls more than 3000 i.e. nearly 140 deaths per hour). Transport is an extremely important part of the Bangladesh economy. Some 12% of GDP and 20% of the annual development budget is spent on transport, and 9.4% of the national employment is in the
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Decision Making Dr. Vince Osisek May 12, 2014 Case Study: The Big Data Challenges Week 3 - The Big Data Challenges Page 2 What if your car could talk? Well Volvo CIO's had to wonder the same thing as well. Volvo, a Swedish multinational manufacturing company, that not only produce cars, but light and heavy weight trucks as well as buses. Volvo Car Corporation has a history of using innovation to produce premium automobiles. The manufacture chose to rely on information technology to gain
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during a riot, what about domestic violence and firearms, wont legal owners of arms use the firearms to kill and murder others, what about accidents, and suicides?” the answers to these questions are generally the same statistics in the United States as they are in India, in the United States as well as in India, people are more likely to die in an auto accident than they
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Business Methods Lori Travis 11/01/14 What is the future of driving? Almost 120 years ago, the first car was manufactured. Nowadays, cars are the main on-ground transportation. Although vehicles help people a lot in their full of movement and energy modern life, cars are taking away people’s time, which they spend behind the wheel. Cars are also a means of transportation that is associated with a high chance of life-threatening risks. So how can Google change that? Google’s
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Have you ever thought about sitting in a driver's seat while not driving in a moving car? Well, that is the future of driverless cars! Driverless cars are known to come out onto the roads in the year 2020. Also, there will be many types of driverless cars due to how many companies are trying to produce them, including Tesla, Google, Toyota, and etc. They are all battling to try to produce a driverless car first, which will lead to their company getting more money because this is something that not
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Crash Two high school students died in a tragic Tesla vehicle accident in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The driver, Barrett Riley, and passengers, Edgar Monserratt and Alexander Berry were seniors at Pine Crest School, weeks away from graduation. The boys were traveling Tuesday night in a Tesla Model S in an area known as “dead man’s curve” when the vehicle hit a wall and caught fire. Passenger Alexander Berry survived, he was thrown out the car and rushed to the hospital. Unfortunately Barrett Riley and
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other health problems like arthritis. Just imagine that a senior cause you an accident and then you know that the cause of the accident was that the old man has arthritis. It not was his fault, is fault of the authorities that permitted that people that aren’t in conditions to drive manage in our streets. Senior also can be affected by hearing problems that can affected them if they don’t hear a beep of another car or other auditory signs that help us in the road. On the other hand, we have
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The evolution of IT has given rise to different products that has allowed companies to take advantage of and thrive with enduring competitive advantages. The new trend, that is a successful product of this evolution, is the application of Cloud technology infra-structure and its applications. Cloud technology these days is becoming a household jargon with more people using it either in their personal life (storing multi-media contents or streaming music etc.) or in professional environments (cloud
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When you think of driverless cars you may think of a car that probably isn't around at the moment. Well, you're wrong there are actually driverless cars being made and already been made. These driverless cars are very different from the normal cars we see now, and soon enough we all will be able to “drive” these cars. Who created driverless cars This project “driverless cars” was started by Google. In May 2014 Google launched the first prototype, then in December 2014 they launched the second prototype
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