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Driverless cares are coming. It's true, though it almost seems something out of science fiction. Today, we have cars that can drive themselves with the aid of humans. This means that there is still a driver, though they won't be doing much except sitting and watching the road. They must watch the road as they may need to take control of the car if there is an accident, construction, or if a road is closed off for another reason. This is a far cry from what we think driverless cars to be. Of course, the technology is there, it's just a very basic state of it. Most of what is there, the basics, is still very complex.
In my own opinion, yes, driverless cars are the way of the future. However, there is still use of a driver within the driverless car. So maybe not calling them driverless cars as a start, perhaps independent cars or auto cars. Having a driver still within the car can help, it may be that some places aren't mapped on the maps within the car. This may mean that the driver will have to take over, placing the safety of others into the hands of the driver. The thing with the driverless cars is that if there is an accident, whether it be man-made or machine error, whose fault is it? This is a big question, with many different answers. The truth is, there isn't laws in place for this, as there are no true driverless cars on the roads. We could pin the blame on the driver, for not taking control at the right moment to prevent a disaster. The same could be said for the manufacturer, for creating a faulty program within the car.
Today, the problem with cars is simple. They are dangerous. There isn't a bigger risk today than getting in a car and driving. Hundreds of people die or are injured in a car accident today and most of them are due to humans. A driverless car could reduce the amount of accidents and deaths on the roads. There still is need of people being at the wheel of the vehicle, but with less human interaction of the vehicles operation, the less likely it is to result in failure on the drivers part. There is also a possibility of it helping drunk drivers. If someone gets into the vehicle, they could tell the car their destination, and be on their way. This could result in less accidents and less deaths with vehicles involved. However, on the flip side of things, this may not help. If a third party company creates a faulty program for the vehicles for a big company, the blame will be pinned on the big company for outsourcing. This results in more strict laws on driverless cars and could result in there being less appeal to the idea of a driverless, or semi-driverless, car. We're still a few years from having driverless cars, and even more from having completely driverless cars.
My opinion is that self driving cars could help our society. We could gain so much from this, most of it being less accidents and deaths from something that is so important to many of our lives today. Taking the risk of getting in a car with someone who is new, elderly, or drunk is huge. Today, that risk is garunteed with consequences. Most of them are bad, with either injuries or death some big ones. Tomorrow, that risk could decrease with semi-driverless cars or completely driverless cars. The possibilities are endless with a car that rarely, if ever, requires human interaction on the road.
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Ever since the dawn of the space age, humans have been dreaming of traveling to our nieghbors in the solar system, Venus and Mars. Great strides have been made in the exploration of Mars. It is quite possible that within the next few years, astronauts will be visiting Mars and and studying the Red Planet in person. Such advances hve not been made in the exploration of Venus however. The environmental conditions of Venus have made it impossible for humans to make on the ground exploation of Venus a reality.
The third paragraph of the article gives a great host of reasons why we should not explore Venus. On the other hand, the reasons to visit Venus are, dare I say, lacking. The author points out the highly corrosive atmosphere, the extreme tempuratures, and the sky high pressure on the surface of Venus. They aslo point out that because of these difficult conditions, noone has ever been able to land even an unmanned spaceship on the planet without it being melted within a few hours.
The evidence to support going to Venus is average at best. The strongest argument given by the author is in paragraph 4 where they say, " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This may be true, but I think the author has still given insufficient evidence for why it would be benificial to explore Venus. It may be possible in the future that new technologies allow us to explore Venus, but for now I think we should wait.
In closing, sometime in the forseeable future, it may be more possible and logical to visit Venus. In our current situation, I think it would be much more benefical to advance our technologies enough to where we can land on the surface and get a close look around. Though we may not have the materials today to withstand the harsh climate of Venus, we should still be inventing and advancing our technologies. Who knows, maybe we could make a discovey on Mars that could help us finally reach the "Evening Star", Venus.
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I am against the development of driverless cars for many reasons. Personally I feel as though people are starting to get more and more lazy these days with the help of technology. I believe it would be much more safe for someone to manually drive a car, rather than put your trust into a computer. There is a wide range of possibilities that could go wrong with driverless cars out on the roads.
My first reason is that the car could malfunction. Whoever programmed the car could have messed up and gave the car a defect. Then someone would buy that defected car and most likely get into a crash. Someone could be on a highway while the car system fails, crashing into a semi truck. Theres a possibility that the car could completely shut off, leaving you stranded in the middle of nowhere. Also GPS these days isn't very reliable, the car could take you completely off route trying to follow GPS.
My second reason is that someone could hack your cars system. Somebody that strongly dislikes you could get in your car and ruin its system. Even worse, people would start paying a hacker to destroy car systems. While you're out on the road relaxing in your driverless car, a hacker could take control of your car giving it directions. That means while your stuck in your car, someone is in control of your life deciding if they want to crash your car.
My third reason is that it's not very safe. I don't think putting all of your trust into a vehicle is a very smart idea. The sensor on the car could go out with your knowledge, causing it to crash. There could be road construction that the car is not aware of, potentially driving straight into the construction site. Your city might have certain driving regulatons that the car won't know about, which could give you a ticket from a cop.
My fourth reason is that you could be put at a higher risk of getting in a car accident. What if a little boy is getting his ball in the road? The car might not see him with the sensors, causing the car to drive right into the boy. You could be texting on your phone and then out of no where a car is comming right towards you. It's too late to gain control of the car because you were so busy texting, resulting in a car crash. Maybe you're tired so you take a nap while your car is on its way to the casino. Your car could crash at any moment, because you're not awake and not paying attention to the road.
In conclusion, there are multiple reasons why a driverless car wouldn't be safe. whether it's due to a malfunction, hacker, or even safety issues driverless cars are not safe. I hope after reading this you realize there are way more cons than pros with driverless cars. It's better to do things right by yourself, rather than putting your trust into technology.
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In 1976 images taken by NASA's Viking 1 have shocked the media. These images show an object on Mars that resembles a faces. These images have surprised the media and cuased a large reaction.
These are images of a mesa on Mars. They are closely related to the mesas we have on Earth. The "face" is actually shadows giving the illusion of a nose, eyes, and mouth on the mesa. They released these pictures to the public hoping it would sensationalize Mars. They hoped it would help make Mars more interestion. Well the images did just that. People stared to believ that there was life on Mars. They believed that the face was made by aliens, dispite the research proving it was just an illusion. Conspracy theorist belived that the illusion explanation was just a cover up. Yet, why would NASA cover it up. If this would be real NASA would get an extreme increase in popularity and funding. They would only benefit from it. NASA even took another voyage to prove it was jut a rock formatioon.
Although NASA has proven time and time again that it is not actually a face, people are still esceptical. People believ that the goverment is hidding something from us. These ideas are ludicris. Look at the facts. The goverment or NASA wouldn't benifit from a rock formation as much as they would from a prove of life on Mars. The rumors about the face are just that, rumors.
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I believe it is a neat idea to have technology that can understand human emotion. But if we continue down this path of robotic contimplation I think we may have bigger issues. The idea of having a computer always monitor your emotional states seems almost like not giving methe privacy that i deserve. So that being said it would be a neat idea but I dont think it should be incorporated at schools but maybe as a voluntary thing that people can sign up for that would be different.
It's a bad idea because it would cause drama in peoples lives who dont need to have any more of it in them. Its almost a little creepy and rude. I mean if you really weren't having a good day and a computer told you that youre upset. I'm pretty sured you'd be more upset than you were because we as human dont like to be confronted with that type of stuff. I think that if it was a voluntary thing were peoplecould go and sign up to see how they feel because god forbid they dont know their own emotions it would be a good idea. But I think its a terrible idea to be doing on peple without consent.
It's a good idea because it could help slove murder cases if it can tell when people are lying. If it can tell if people are nervous that could be helpful for police interrogation. It can be used on the person who doesn't want to live and can tell that they are upset enough to do something like that and they can be stopped before it happens. It seems like it can be helpful if used by the Police but for the public it wouldnt be a good idea.
The ugly truth about it is the fact this may or may not be real but if it is it will happen. It will eventually happen and then the world will start buiding new things to make robots do and then they'll take over the world but until then. This is a retched idea. If this is to be a good idea I'd say let law enforcement have it but no public access. If we truly want to be supporting the peole who struggle with depression or anything we wont just make a robot tell them to get better. Nothing in this world beats human interaction when love is shown. If we all just showed a little more love idea like this wouldnt even be a thing.
Its not a good idea it never will be But, If it does happent you can bet that I will wear a mask everywhere I go. Personally I dont like the idea of a machine telling me what I am. And if the world come to it and they must have rbots that tell emotions I hope I'm long gone by then.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if humans didn't have to control the car? I think driveless cars is a good idea but at some time humans will have to take over. I say this because it would be less acidents, there will be less tickets , and people without lisences can't drive.
One reason why I think it's a good idea is because it will be less acidents. The computer will know what to do in different situations. And i think they should have a monitor on when the computer drives and when the person drives. At what place and what time. Then you will know who to blame for any acidents.
Another reason why i think it's a good idea is because there will be less tickets. If the car knows what speed limit to go or when to stop then there would be no problem with running past lights and stop signs. And you can't lie about it was the computer because it follows the rules , and they have it monitered on the car.
My last reason is because there is a lot of people out there that doesn't have a lisents and they are still driving. If you have to show your lisents or put it into somewhere so the computer knows you are allowed to drive than there wouldn't be a problem.
There are so many good reasons why you should have drivless cars. But theses are my 3 reasons why i think we should have them.
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Hello. My name is Luke, the boy who joined the Seagoing Cowboys. I had such a fun experience and so can you. There are many reasons on why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. Sit down for a few minutes while I tell why you should join.
Here have some tea! You should join because you can have a fun time and experience. While we go back to where we live, we can play were the cows used to be housed. We can play either basketball, volleyball, and we even have table-tennis tournaments! You can also travel the whole world like for instance, China or Greece or Italy. This is one reason on why you should join.
It can even help you be a better person. You can help out animals by feeding them, taking care for them, and changing
the stalls. They have to be watered and fed two to three times a day. International students come from foriegn lands and we help them be a part of our crew. With the help of yours, you can change the world and make it a better place to live in.
So, take some time to think about joining the program. Here's a handout and there is no fee or admission. All we need are people who are hard workers with a positive atitude. Well, I had a fun time talking to you and thanks for your listening. Thank you!
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Ever wonder what is a " Electoral College? Like what is that suppose to mean?, A internet campus, Tech class, or etc. Well its not actually A Electoral college is made for up coming presidents. That differrnt selections of people go and meet the president and vice presdent. The congress. The College consits up to 238 votes and only 270 on select for the presidecny.
The president electron is held evey four yeas an the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you are about to select a presdint you vote for your candidan
Two guys named Rich, Jummy carter, Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO and they are not alone according to Gallup poll in 2000, after Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors. The single best argument agianst the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The election would be thrown to the house or Representatives, where state delegations vote to the presdient. Because each state casts only one vote to give th voters vote to the president and another for the congress,
The House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the wall of the people, And if an electoral tie seems unlikely. A the base level the electoral colloege is unfair to voters. Because of the winner takes it all system in each state , candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chances at win at these king of states for the president. They focuse only on the the tight races in the "swing" states. There many things in the Electoral College that many people on they outside don't know what the Congress or the up running presidents are struggling it looks easy on the inside bu on the ouside wow they have a lot to work on.
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There is no "face" on the planet Mars in the Cydonia region. I feel that it is people's imagination coming to life in strong arguments. Although it isn't a face, people are still making a big controversy over the Face on Mars.
First of all, in 1976, when the picture was taken, technology wasn't the best, so it could have been some lack of better technology that could've made it look like a face. In paragraph 10, the author states, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." Also, in paragraph 11, the author says, "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" These two quotes state that the improvement of technology has proved that this isn't any Martian-made object.
Secondly, the 2001 camera's high resolution allowed a closer and more evidential look. Again, in paragraph 10, the author states, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." This quotation's second reason proves that the camera could zoom in closer and get evidence to support that the formation is not a face.
Lastly, the formation is just a natural landform called a "mesa." The author says, "Scientist figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." In comparison, paragraph 12 claims, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American West. 'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,' says Garvin. 'That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.'" Both of these quotes tell us that scientific research proves that the Face on Mars is fake, and that it is actually a mesa.
The Face on Mars in the region of Cydonia is actually a mesa. I feel that the Face on Mars is causing too much of a controversy. I hope that as technology improves, we can get better views on the landform to get better evidence that it is a Mesa and not a Martian-made face.
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While today's generation has made numerous advancements in
technology, driverless cars have experienced the largest contraveral arguments. While some believe that driverless cars could benefit our society in numerous ways, other beleive that driverless cars are dangerous and could potentially do more harm than good. I personally belive that we as a society should continue the development of driverless cars and offer them to the common people.
In the article it states that Google has had driverless cars for the past seven years although they only driver under certain conditions. The advancement of driverless cars have increased so quickly in the past seven years that if given another, we could perfect driverless cars and make our rodes more safe. If we had driverless cars, the percentage of car crashes due to drunk driving or texting in driving would decrease to almost zero percent. That alone could save countless lives and save money.
Also, it isn't as if these cars have no safety reprocautions. These driverless cars are equipped with sensors that "can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response," as stated in the article. These cars are smarter than some of the most intelligent human beings. They can predict an accident and safe ways to avoid it while humans can only respond naturally, which could be hazrdous for all drivers involve.
In addition, these cars aren't completly driverless. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mpg, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." These cars keep the driver alert and allow the driver to take over the task if the driver feels as if the car is not in a place where it can drive itself.
In conclusion, I am completly for the development of driverless cars. They could prevent hazardous driving, have afety reprocussions, and can still require an alert driver. Thes cars can be a huge benefit to our soceity and could save countless lives. So why not give it a try?
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Do you think its a good idea to be a sea going cowboy? well befor you anser that let me tell you a little story about a boy who was a seagoing cowboy. Luke Bomberger was a young boy fresh out of highschool working two part-time jobs. Luke thought that he would probably be stuck working two jobs for a while, but thats were things change his freind Don Reist had invited him to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldnt resist , he had to go he thought. this was an opportunity of a life time he thought. Luke was one of the lucky people to be a sea going cowboy. Even though luke was scared at first he ended up loveing it. they played games in thee free time like baseball, volleyball, they held tennis tournaments they also had fenceing and boxing tournament.
Luke loved getting to travel. He got to go to Greece when he was only 18 years old. Luke had made nine trips before he was discharged in 1947. Luke also went to Europe, China, and Italy were he got to take a gondola ride. This oppertunity can change your life for the better. There any many jobs of being a sea going cowboy.Being a seagoing cowboy can be dangeous at times, on lukes second trip he worked as a watchman. His job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night after makeing his hourly report to the captian he slid down a slippy ladder on his backside . Luckly he didnt go over board but he was still hurt with some cracked ribs.
Do you think its a good idea to be a sea going cowboy. Yes theres dangers but along with danger comes excitement. being an sea going cowboy gives you the oppertunity to help many people and familys that need food or medical help. being a seagoing cowboy can let you see all the needs in other countries. Luke was a leader to his family by haveing a number of international students and exchange vistors for many years. Being a seagoing cowboy thaught Luke to want to help others. After world war two many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover fortyfour nations joined together to form UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administrateion) . UNRRA
hired " Seagoing Cowboys "to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas luckily Luke and Don signed up to take care of the animals. Wouldnt you like to help out all these types of animals and get ot go on exciteing adventures .
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First of all studying venus isn't a bad idea wanting to explore the deepest point of venus can change history and life, we can figure out many secrets that venus has and what kind of life form could be on venus because in every planet their's always something that hasn't been discovered. Venus is a planet that will soon be explored NASA has been sending spacecrafts to land on venus but they still don't make it,
For three decades many factors contribute to venus reputation and has been a challenge for humans to study, even thoe 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets venus and clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus atmosphere and a temperature of 800 degrees fahrenheit and atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than what we expirence on earth those conditions are way to extreme that humans don't encounter that on earth
Another reason why it should be studied more and have future plans that someday people from NASA will land is that because many astronomers believe that venus may have once been the most earth-like planet in our solar system and that venus was onced probably covered largely with oceans and could've been many forms of life in venus many many years ago.
Many scientist are looking for a way to get samples of rocks,gas,or anthing else that they can use to find out more about venus but they cannot do that. many researchers are working on innovations that will allow machines to last longer so they can get enough samples for them.
Overall i think that finding new ways to explore and studie venus is a great idea i think that will change history maybe in the future venus can become our second home if we find out more about it and venus will soon be an explored planet and hope that will continue with other planets.
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Would you think anything that is not man made
is some kind of alien artifact or a natural landform.The enormous head found on mars was nearly 2 miles from end to end, it could have been a mesa, and it has a shadow that makes it look like a face.
In a few days NASA unveiled the photo for all to see. The caption was "huge rock formation which resembles a human head and a shadow illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth". The face has become a pop icon and has starred in a Hollywood film. It has been on books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted the grocery store checkouts.
Many scientists belived the face was an alien artifact. photographing became a priority for NASA they launched the Global Surveyor it came into mars Orbit in 1997. Jim Garvin chief scientist explained "We felt this was important for taxpayers". The scientist photographed the face as soon as they could get a good shot of the face. On April 5, 1998, When Mars Global Surveyor flew over for the first time, Michael and his camera that he pu ton the Mars orbiter snapped a photo ten times shaper than the oringinal Viking photos but reavealing a natrual landform. There was no alien momument after all.
Many skeptics were not satisfied because the face was located at 41 degrees north martian latitiude. On mars it was winter and it was a cloudy time of years on the red planet. The skeptics said that the camera had to peer though wispy clouds to see the face. The skeptics said alien markings could have been hidden by haze.
When the photo was unveield many conspiracy theorist think the face is a bona fide evidence of life on mars, evidence that NASA would rather hide form us. Mean while defenders of NASA budget wish if there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
In conclusion scientist investigated more into the face and got a perfect photo of the face in maximum quality and showed no signs of writings or sgins of life. Scientits proved that there was no civilization on mars and that there were no writings on the face and it was only a natural landform. The scientists concluted that it was a butte or a mesa- landforms common around the American west.
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"Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too."
The use of this technology to read students' emotional expressions is a great way to see if someone is happy. It can possibly help others to see the person in front of them and what their emotions are or what that person is 'trying to hide'
It's all about muscular action units. They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (the muscles that begin at the cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth.
The muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around the eyes. But in a fake smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity is not being thruthful.
Making a fake smile can also help produce a real one. Practicing with putting a pencil across your mouth works the same muscles as when a person is smiling for real.
This project does help in forms that can tell when someone is being sad, happy, disgusted, surprised, angry, fearful, and/or sad.
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Cars are seen and used every day. You most likely drove in a car or rode in one coming to school or work. But these little motors are harming us little by little by damaging the environment. So what are the advantages of Limiting car usage?
I believe that limiting car usage is an important factor nowadays. Driving causes pollution which in fact harms our environment(14). Paris actually banned driving for a couple of days due to smog , which is a type of pollution. Paris motorists would have to pay a fine of 22-euros or $31 just to drive there cars(11). Paris has more smog than other European capitals(17). After all of this hard work of limiting car use, the smog actually cleared and people did not have to pay to drive anymore(19). Is limiting car usage helpful?
("Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer)
Now what if we stop driving all together? According to this artical "In German Suburbs, life goes on without cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, The Residents of Vauban have given up their cars(1). Matter of fact the people of Vauban dont really drive at all but instead people use trams and other forms of transportations(2). By doing this you can be on the environments side instead of fighting it. ( "In German Suburbs, life goes on without cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal)
How about a whole day of not using your car? Well that is currently happening in the city of Bogota , Colombia. Imagine all your friends and family riding bikes ,skating ,and even jogging to work or school. wouldn't that be cool?(20) "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" Said Businessman Carlos Artura (24). Even other cities joined with the event . Now we have to bring this even to the United States. ("Car-Free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" By Andrew Selsky
I belive that Limiting car use is a great advantage. We have Countrys making days that Avoids driving. "Car-Free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" By Andrew Selsky .
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I believe that driverless cars are unnecessary because of the liabilities that come with them, there's nothing wrong with standard cars, and too easy to take control over from an outside force.
One of the reasons I think driverless cars are unnecessary is because of the liabilities. If the car doesn't alert you and tell you that you're about to crash and you end up hitting someone, who's at fault? You or the manufacturer? Certainly it would be the manufacturer, wouldn't it? But you should've been paying attention! You can't just expect the car to alert you every time! But, isn't that what it's supposed to do? How are we supposed to have driverless cars if you can't even come to a clear decision on whether it's the driver's or manufacturer's fault in the case of a crash? These cars will create too many complex legal battles and are unnecessary.
Another reason I think driverless cars are unnecessary is that there is absolutely nothing with standard cars. Sure, people will be stupid and get behind the wheel under the influence; but, they will be able to be held accountable for their actions and have to pay fines, serve time, etc. What will become of people who just want to drive to drive? Standard cars provide security in knowing that the person behind the wheel will need to know what they're doing. What if a cell tower is down and the car won't be able to drive itself? How does the car drive in places with absolutely no reception? Driverless cars are not big of enough of a step up from standard cars.
The final reason I feel that driverless cars are unnecessary is because they are too easy to take control over. Now, I do not mean that it's easy to just grab the steering wheel and turn the car into a random tree off the side of the road or anything like that. I mean that if a computer is driving the car, can't it be hacked into? Hackers can get into some of the most secure computers in the world, so what's stopping them from doing that with computers that drive cars? Say someone that is mentally ill enough to not like someone to the extent that they want them dead, isn't it easier to just hire someone to hack into their car computer and make them get into an accident? Driverless cars pose too many risks to people inside them as it is easier to be taken over by an outside force.
Some may say that driverless cars can actually help and are a good invention. They can make driving across the country or down to Florida for spring break much easier than having to sit and pay attention to the road for sixteen hours straight. But, you still have to pay attention to the road. The car isn't completely accident-free. What if the dad who has all of his kids and his partner in the passenger seat starts drifting off at the wheel? It's dark and he doesn't have to focus on anything so what's keeping him awake? What if he doesn't wake up when his car alerts him that it is about to crash and the car gets totalled? Although seemingly incredible, driverless cars offer up far more cons than pros.
That is why I believe that driverless cars are unnecessary because of the complexities of legal issues that come with them, they aren't much of a step up from standard cars, and they are too easy to take over from an outside perspective. Next time you start thinking about how nice it would be to have something drive your car for you, just think of the dynamics of everything that could be wrong with it and call a taxi service instead.
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In today's world, technology continues to advance constantly as human inventiveness increases. Many previously unimaginable ideas such as drones and hoverboards have became realities. Another one of thes enthralling ideas is the proposal of a driverless car. These cars are thought to end the need for huamns to ever touch a steering wheel. However, driverless cars are proving to be an unwarranted creation with remaining human requirements and legal ramifications.
While driverless cars promise to remove the need for human driving, the flaws in their programming still require humans directing the car. One would expect a driverless car to have developed computers that can sense how to deal with accidents and zones of construction. The ability to deal with common issues in the motorized world would be assumed a definite in a computerized car. However, the "driverless" cars still require humans to deal with construction, accidents, and sudden lane shifts. Promises of "driverless" are negated by the requirement of human knowledge to adjust the car to the relatively trivial obstacles of motor vehicle operation. Because humans are still needed in driverless cars, the need and desire for the technology of the future is negated by the inability to deal with the present world.
Driverless cars also present obstructions in the legal system of today's government. A strong majority of the United States of America have laws put in place that restrict the developement and production of computerized automobiles. By owning a driverless car, the owner of the car can find trouble with local officials in the area. These driverless cars also present a dilema with the legal procedures of automobile accidents. If a driverless car were to malfunction and cease power, then an accident would certainly occur. When these accidents involving driverless cars do happen, the dilema of blame will face those involved. Was the accident caused by a faulty driverless car that still requires humans? Was it caused by a human owner who failed to observe the mechanical soundness of the driverless car? The liability can not truly be placed on one source or another, for judgement is impaired by the different signals the car is receiving. A human or a computer chip causing the car accident is not what matters in this dilema. What does matter is preventing this dilema by exterminating the existence of driverless cars in the first place.
When Henry Ford first brought modernized automobiles to American markets, there was no thought of how far these cars will evolve. However, a precedent of human control over the automobiles was set by the introduction of the first Model T. As a society we find ourselves in a world Ford could have never imagined. Cars have become much safer and more technical than Ford ever could have dreamt. However, a crucial intersection has now been reached in the history of the automobile. As a society we must ask ourselves the critical questions: Are driverless cars that can't drive themselves really worth it? Are all of the possible safety and legal ramifications worth no longer having control over the automobile? For the generations to come, society must make a stand now against these "driverless" cars which fail their name and pose legal and safety risks that Ford never intended to be an issue.
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The new technology called the Facial Action Coding System is very valuable. This new technology will be very useful in a classroom full of students that one teacher may not be able to handle all on their own. The Facial Action Coding System will help deal with many problems by reading a students face. This may help deal with situations a teacher can not figure out on their own. This software may be able to tell the teacher when the student is confused, upset, or even when the student is bored and needs a more interactive subject or way of learning.
When a student is confused, they may not ask for help to a teacher. The child may be too shy or nervous to ask for a simple example or explanation. This software program will be helpful because it will be able to read the students confused face and tell a teacher that the student needs help. In the short story in paragraph six it states, "most communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." This explains how not all people will use words to explain what they are feeling. These students may never speak up for themselves or have the courage to ask a question without the program being here to help deal with the childs needs.
The Facial Action Coding System will not only help with students life in the classroom, but it may also help with a students feelings deeper within. The software will be able to pick out the students who are very upset, and need to talk about their emotions to another person. If a student has a sad face in class, the program may be able to identify what is wrong with the child, and it could notify this information to a teacher or a well trusted adult. In paragraph five of this story it states, "most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." By having this computer software, it could help out with a students mental emotional feelings as well.
This program will also be very helpful in providing a fun learning environment for the students. In the middle of paragraph six it explains how a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored. It also states that if you smile when a website advertisement pops up on the computer screen it will show more advertisements like that one. If a person frowns when this pops up, it willl show a different, more appealing advertisement. This can be very useful in a classroom. It may make the students more interested in learning. The students might even be more excited to learn now, because the computer will know that the students happy facial experssions mean they are enjoying the type of way the program is teaching them.
The new Facial Action Coding System will be extremeley helpful in a classroom. The students will have a more positive learning environment with this software. The new technology will not only be able to help with a students mental emotions, but it will help them be in a happier state of learning. This new system be more helpful for the students and for the teachers. The Facial Action Coding System is exactly what a school should be using for a overall better work place.
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In this essay I am going to talk about NASA discussing the Face with, someone who thinks it was created by aliens and I am suppose to convince that is wasn't a alien who, made the Face. Why don't I believe that wasn't a alien because it could have been a rock that landed and it shaped the Mars into a face in 2001.
So why I don't think aliens made it beacuse aliens aren't real, and they would have did something different probably if they were real. In this essay I don't think it was by aliens because it says " The caption noted a "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nise, and a mouth.
I don't think aliens made this because of the pictures and things. They would have showed up and given us a sign that they were there and there are satellites up that takes pictures of all the things and planets.
For my conclusion I think aliens did not make the Face because of many reasons and because, of the technology today we could have picked up a signal or something because, of the satellites and all of the technology we have today.
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With technology making advancements everyday, it is natural that we adapt and adopt new forms of technology in our lifes, houses, hospitals, schools and even prisons,however, some technologies might get too far into our lives and into our heads.
A new software developed at the University of Illinois promises to read and detect facial expressions that reveal how we felt at the moment the picture or camera footage was recorded. The project is now in early stages of development but is already able to read paintings and describe what they feel.
In his text "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Nick D'Alto states that " if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow.", stating that the software can be used to monitor people and detect what products they take interest in, which is an unethical way to push companies into people's lives; moreover, the author claims that students can have their facial expressions monitored so that if they become bored, the computer can adjust the lesson to make it more engaging to the student. Although students have different needs, the usage of surveilance to capture their interest can be compared to the way babies are shown colorful and animated things to keep their attention, which can make the student's attention span even smaller than it has become, alienating and making them more dependant of technology.
In conclusion, the usage of this software to either sell products or monitor students is unethical at the least, and can lead to an even more alienated population.
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Many people carry out their daily life routine via car. Whether it is to drop their children off at school, or simply taking them to go to any sort of practice. Whichever the case, many find limiting car usage to be the answer to our problems.
One thing most people know is the amount of damage using a car can cause, especially to the enviorment. Air pollution has been a great facor into the problem as well as carbon emmisions. For example, in Europe passenger cars are responsible for about 12% of greenhouse gas emissions and up to 50%
in some car intensive areas across the areas in the United States. Congestion also plays into the problem. In France, there was an increase of smog in their cities, and disel runned cars were to blame. As an outcome, the cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to cage in car emissions. With the limitation of car usage comes the decrease of toxic air roaming into our atmosphere, and an increase of a healthier lively one.
Besides the enviormental effects car usage has had on us, there is also human effect. Many people around the world have participated in events in which they were to quit the car usage and were to find different methods of transportation, and the feedback was positive. In Vauban, Germany there is a resident of an upscale community whom had owned a car, but had decided to give it up. Heidrun Walkter, a mother of two, had once owned a car but now she walks the streets and is able to hear the swish of bicycles and the chatter of children. She says "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."
The limit of car usage has also brought about more days of physical activity. In Bogota, Columbia, there were millions of Columbians who hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car free day they had, in attempt to lower the smog in the air. In return, what the people got out of this day was both the decrease in smog, but also the decrease of stress. Not only did the day leave the capital city completely devoid of traffic jams but also brought many people closer with each other. As an example, a man riding a bicylcle with his wife around the city, and says to say it was beneficial for both the enviroment and themselves.
Overall, the limitation of car usage has drastically decreased the amount of air pollution, and smog around the world. It has brought about the sound of children playing and the sound of people riding their bicycles. Many of the countries around the world participate in events to lower the harmful outcomes of the car usage from Germany to Paris, to Columbia and the United States, but there are still efforts in which they are present.
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in this article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it talks about the dangers and harsh eviroment that venus has. Also shows how much of a hard task it is to get their technology up their with out it being destroyed due to the tempertures. The main objective of this article wants to point out that it is trying to studie the planet Venus because of its close resimblence to earth except for tempertures but the density and mass of it.
This article really does have a good point to it considering on how much time and studies go into this planet. one of their plans is to fray above the atmosphere just enough so that they are able to withstand most of the harsh conditions to last a good amount of time. They even tested it in a similar enviroment that they made acustomed to the same enviroment as venus has and it lasted 3 weeks at the most. But their are other things that they are thinking of doing such as they are thinking of using old technology that was presented around the 1940's just because "these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do note require electronics at all." the point that they are trying to make is that mechanical stuff is more durable and modern technology. You see modern technology is flexible, powerful, and quick but mechanical gears are more capable of withstanding the extreme pressure and heat that venus can throw at them.
This planet is very old and it is to say that it once held a hospitable enviroment with oceans and trees and life as we now it. But as you can see, now it isn't doing very well so that is why we want to studie it because of its mysterious past. So as they said " our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." so what they are saying is that the limits are boundless.
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Some people belive that the Driverless cars will be great in safety and mobility. Some belive that there going to cause many accidents. My personal opinion is that that it would be nice have. It would help people get place to place if they are nervous drivers. But I also think that there will be many flaws to this investment. There will most likely be accidents an mobile disfunctions. The manufactures of the cars will just have to be perpared for improvments and better qualities.
People will be giving ideas and wants for the cars too. My biggest concern is what if the driver happens to fall asleep and be heavy sleeper. The car has to wake up the driver but what if the driver sleeps through the warning? This could cause safety problems. I think only certain people should get these cars. Only older people that cant get around like they used to, teens or adults that are learning how to drive, and nervous drivers should use the driverless car.
There are many Pros and Cons about having the car. If the manufactures have proof that the cars will bee 100 percent safe then i would be definatly ok with them being on the roads. If they can not make the cars 100 percent safe then I would not allow them on the roads.
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Now a day, car is one of the best choices that people use
for travelling. Is it going to be better if the cars that you are using right now can be driving indepently, without the driver. Is it going to be helpful and easier for our mankind.
In my oppionion,the diverless car can be easier for us to travel.Based on the artical,the google has had cars that could drive independently,their cars have driven more than half a million miles. They also have a GPS which can help the drivers to fond out their location,sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera , four automotive radar sensors and an inertial motion sensor. The developing of
the cars can improve sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer.
On the other hand, their were no cars developing
completely driverless. The accident can happen every moment, this means that human driver must always be careful and alert when they are driving.
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I think that hes right because no body knows about Venus and people would want to know more about it. people can learn what Venus has and how things live there. you are going have to know because theres no oxygen there so you have to take a oxygen tank. Many people have wanted to go visit Venus and see how it is out there. The temperature is very warm and the surface is rough. Scientist are investigating how Venus is, if its safe to visit and explore and find new living things their that people dont know about. They say if you go into it with phones your phones will explode because of how hot it is on the planet. The evidence that shows is that they dont know if its safe enough for regular people just to go because its very hot there. You would have to wear a special suit so you wont burn your skin.
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In 1976 a picture was taken by Viking 1 was taken that sparked up controversy. In the picture of the Martian surface there appears to be the shape of a face made from the rock. Although it was disproven that it was a face built by aliens it still makes some people subscribe to the consperocy theories surrounding this Martian Mesa.
Some of the claims hat support that this is a natural occurance and not a monument built by aliens is that when in different lighting it turns from a face to just a normal mesa. But, of course, some people don't believe this and they say that NASA is just trying to cover it up. In responce to these accusations NASA said that it would be amazing if it actually was an alien monument because it would give new light onto exploring the Red Planet.
In the text the author states that to achieve the photo that proved the face was not actually a face took extreme detail to get perfect and that if it was a face or their was any other buidling around the mesa it would be as clear as day. Also, even here on planet Earth there are examples of these mesa such as the one in Idaho that is a lava dome about the same height as the face. So, in conclusion, NASA really doesn't have a reason to cover it up; if it wasn't a face then they don't really loose anything but if it was a face then they would get tons of money for missions to Mars.
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There are many questions still to be answered about Venus. Was it really once a survivable atmosphere for life? Could there have been life on Venus at one point in time? Were there any plant or food sources?
Venus is Earth's twin planet due to it's similarity in size and density, making it probable that Venus was once very similar to our planet and living conditions. It shouldn't be a suprise it is desired to be explored and researched.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, besides it not being closest to the sun, Venus's average temperature is an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Which leaves Venus being an Astronomic mystery. Even the atmospheric pressure is 90x greater than anything on earth,including the bottom of our oceans.
NASA has yet to discover a productive way to visit the planet. One idea being to hover atleast 30 miles over the landscape of Venus. A con to that is NASA's technology can not handle samples of gas or rocks due to the atmospheric pressure.
NASA is still working on ideas, a plan and the right technology to take a look at Venus which in the end, will be a magnificent discovery.
Taking a closer look at Venus could likely lead us to discovering something great in astromonmy and could likely help us answer some of the biggest questions of our Solar System.
Besides the dangers and great challenges, a history changing discovery could be made and is worth the risks.
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Throughout the years we have been seeing many improvements to our technology from making computors to making global tracking devices that can show us where we are. Also in those years of improvement in techonology, the advancement to make cars driverless have been set to mind by manufacturers and other people who have the idea of having driverless cars. In my mind this is undoubtely in our future, for our technology never ceases to stop improving day by day.
There are a substantial of others that think this too. This idea hasn't come out just now, but has been around for sometime now, one who shares this is Google cofounder Sergey Brin with his envisions of driverless cars taking total control of any situation thrown at the car while on the road. They've actually been making cars that could drive independently under "specific conditions" since 2009 that have already traveled more than a million miles without crashes. These cars have special tech that allows them to sense their surroundings in a 3-D area around the car which transcripts to the cars central processor and take heed of the necessary actions. The LIDAR isn't the only piece of equipment on these driverless cars, they also include radar sensors, GPS reciever, and inertial motion sensors; making them compatible in most practical ways when driving on the road. The technology of driverless cars hasn't reached full potential yet and these cars still at times require people to react and be alert to unexpected conditions like accidents that happened on the road. Improvements to technology have been finding ways around this block though and it isn't stopping there either. Creating Antilock brakes, Traffic jam assistants, and even camera's that watch the driver to know if he's aware and if not, alert them to be aware.
Technology has come a long way from what it was in the beginning of the 2000's. Now our tech is even a part of our daily lives in just about many of the things we do. People denying driverless cars are really just denying advancment in our technology. But technology always improves, and so will driverless cars, for they are a part of that advancement.
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The works of a car have created wonders to people as early as the early 1900s. Now people need to understand the advatages of limting car use. Pollution has gone down in cities from not using cars and people have reported less stress, which is due to the car rates going down. Many people have argued that jobs are going to go more down then we may need, if we stop using cars, but there is always a way to fix small situations such as that.
Studies have shown cars have created pollution for the enviornment. Pollution can cause sickness and other affects that can cause a habitat to be inhabitable."Pasenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the United States,"(Rosenthal,5). Though, we can fix that. Many cities such as Paris,France have experimented with the law involving cars to see if the country can have a pollution decrease and they did, within the first day. Duffer reported that on Monday Paris created a ban for the even-numbered plates and the smog was able to clear in one day's time. "The smog cleared enough Monay for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday," (Duffer,19).
People have argued that stopping car production may cause people to lose their jobs. There is a way to fix that. Selsky reported that in Bogota,Colombia because of the car distribution slowing down they were able to make parks and sport centers accessiable. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city,"(Selsky,28). With that being said without people running any of those faclities then parks and sport centers wouldn't be that accessiable to the fellow citizens. So by creating more places like parks and sport centers, and less places like car factories we would be able to limit car usage without the worry of someone losing their job and not being able to get one.
Cars have also been known to cause stress. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars," Rosaenthal quoted Heidrun Walter talking about how tense she was when she had a car. The constant worrying for gas and car bills may be a factor towards the stress in someone's life. Young adults have not worried as much for a car, making the somewhat more content. "Mine (19 and 21) have not bothered to get a driver's license, even though they both live in places where one could come in handy," (Rosenthal,39).
Limting car use can cause a major impact on today's society. "Demographic shifts in driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate," (Rosenthal,38). It has many advantages that people should understand. Pollution rates can go down. Stress could go down once you start limting car use.
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Long ago, the electoral college was established by the founding father in the Constitution as a compromise between electing a president by a vote in Congress, or an election by popular vote. Years later the result of keeping the Electoral College remains, and it must be changed. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." is a perfect way to describe the matter through Bradord Plumer's words in his article:
Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong . There must to be change, an election by popular vote for our next President of the United States is what our country needs.
First and foremost, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Candidates don't spend time, or money in states they know will have no chance of winning. In the election of the year 2000, seventeen states did not see the candidates at all. Voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not see a single campaign ad. Leaving the decision to people living in the big states candidates work hard to persuade such as Ohio. It is completely unfair knowing that not all U.S. states are receiving the same information, attention and opportunities as others during an election.
It is sad to know that there has been no change from the time our founding fathers were alive until now between the manner of electing a president. The electoral college is outdated, an "anachronism," says Richard A. Posner in his article,
Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President
Others may argue that this is how our nation should be, just as it is right now, but those who say that are those who are afraid of change, those who are blinded by the wrongdoings of the electoral college.
Last, but not least the electoral college is irrational. Plumer says it best writing: "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the presiden." Anyone who disagrees that is irrational is wrong. Not only that, but there has been occasions in which electors have not voted for their party's candidate. Most importantly, electoral college method of selecting a president turns off potential voters that know they have no hope of carrying their state as well.
Without a doubt should there be a change to elect a president and vice president by popular vote. The electoral college brings nothing but unfairness, and irrationality to our country. "Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." (Plumer, 2) Many other well known Americans such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bob Dole also agree on abolishing the electoral college as well. Those who favor against the system override those against change, and that must be the manner in which our next leaders will be elected. There must be change, U.S. citizens have endured the electoral college system for far too long.
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Automobiles play a huge role in our everyday life. Its how we travel to work, home, and even just to cruize around the neiborhood. But does anyone think about what these traving pieces of machinerary do to our planet? Cars are producing a enviormentally harmful fumes such as greenhouse gas, and smog . These two chemicals are harmful for our ecosystems, as well as our health. It is unnessacary that people should be allowed to kill not only the nature that surrounds us, but also themselves so we need to become a car-free nation.
Giving up driving is like giving up a bad habit, you always have the urge to do it again. But is it all worth it. Think about it, you get up for wor, or school and you walk outside where the sun is shining and the birds are chirping and you think "Wow it is beautiful out here". And what do you do... you insert your self into a small metal barrier stoping you from being one with nature. so where am I going with this you might ask. "When I had a car I was always tense. Im much happier this way." says Heidrun Walter, a mother of two who gave up her car and decided to walk. When you are driving you can not say hello to your friends, or nighbors. In fact you cant have any social contact which is not healthy.
The U.S. is one of the largest producers, and consumer of motorized transportation devices. Companys such as Ford, Chevy, Jeep, and Lincon are producing cars that no one could refuse. But are they safe? Car companys advertise that they are "safe". Airbags, seatbelts, even blind-spot protection moniters are some of the advances in vehical safety technology, but technology does not alway work correctly. Most death tolls are not by murder, or suicide, but by car accidents. So why is it that all this technology that engineers are putting in our auotmobiles are not saving lives? This is why walking or running or cycling is an ideal chioce of transporation, and why automoblies should come to an end.
Im not saying that all cars should be throw into a scrap yard and be forgot about. I know that there are those classic cars that every car collector wants, or that family car that has been passed down for ages. Im just stating that cars use should be reduced for the safty of our planet and ourselves. We always want to keep our old memories. Its just like keeping you grandmothers handmade scrapebook...priceless. We are of nation of collectors that can not and will not get ride of our memories and a car is one of the biggest ones that we can hold on to.
President Obama has goal that he is trying to achives that will lower the greenhouse gas emission say "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal. It is leaders such as Obama that will save this planet, and all we would have to do is become a car-free world. With the help of all the citizens we can become a clean, healthy, and happy world.
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There are many different opinions about the whole "Driverless Cars" idea. They're good, they're bad, etc. Why are they so good or bad? Well in my opinion they are a very bad thing. "Driverless Cars" are a very bad thing for multiple reasons.
First, there's the increased risk of an accident. Sure technology is highly advanced now a days, but that doesn't mean there are zero problems. "If the technology fails", there is always a chance that something could go wrong. For example, how many times has your phone crashed or shut down on you? That could very likely happen to your driverless car. I know I wouldn't want a malfunction in my car and not be able to get anywhere, let alone get in an accident because something went wrong in my car.
Secondly, it's encouraging our already lazy society to be even lazier. Everywhere you look there's someone being lazy. For example, instead of going outside on a nice day kids will play their video games or they will find an easy way to get something done quickly (shoving stuff under the bed instead of putting it away). All people do now a days is sit on there high tech devices. "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" These cars will just be that much more of a reason for people not to do something. "[T]he dream of calling a driverless cab to take us wherever we desire, [. . .] has finally begun ot catch up". As soon as there are "official" driverless cars people wont have to worry about "drunk driving", speeding, falling asleep, etc.
Finally, the financial cost of all of this. Everytime something new comes out it's expencive and "high class", but everyone still wants it. If driverless cars become an actual thing then they're going to be high priced. Plus the production of them will be just that much more expensive. The United States already has enough debt to deal with why would we want to put ourselves in even more? Sure people would still buy them, but if the police can't ticket anyone for speeding then we loose money from that. Car accidents are one of the leading causes of injury. If the driverless cars happen to help with less accidents then hospitals would loose major profit from car accident pacients.
Of course, if the technology was perfect, the cars could benefit in a lot of ways. As we all know, though, technology isn't perfect. Which is exactly why the "Driverless Cars" are a terrible idea for our society. There are too many flaws with the idea of driverless cars. That is why I would not feel safe or comfortable in one.
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The author suggests that studying venus has value and challenges not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself,but also because human curiosity will likely lead into many equally intimidating endeavors .The travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovaton.
The adventures to other planets are great but venus being the planet closest to the earth but each previous mission was unmanned and for a good reason since no spacecraft survived the landing for no more than a few hours. The differences in speed mean sometimes venus is right around the corner but sometimes venus is closer to mars and and it can be close to the earth as well.
These conditions venus have are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth;such the enviorment venus has.97% of carbon dioxide blankets a thick atmosphere of venus even more challenging the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature averages at 800 degrees Farenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90x greater than what the earth achieves.
The temperature and pressure in Venus's enviorment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of the ocean would liquefy all metals and minerals. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
Just as our jet airplanes travel at a high altitude to fly over many storms a vehucle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At 30+miles above the surface temparatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. Not only easy conditions but survivable for humans.
NASA is working on different approaches for studying venus. A new test of simplified electronics made up of silicon carbide jave been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and only have lasted for 3 weeks in such conditions. These devices were 1st envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during WWII. The thought of computers and devices existing in those days may sound shocking but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all Modern computers nowdays are enormously powerful,flexible,andquick,but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. By comparison systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure heat and other forces.
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In the 1950's the General Motors created the special test track to use an eleteric cable that sends radio signals from the back of the car to the front of the car to tell people if they are in danger or if they need to taka over of the car! Also in the 1980's automakers used speed sensors at the wheels of the car so that they can use auto brakes. With in 10 years those sensors had become more advance with the Auto driving Cars and help respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers that may happen in a crash.
These smart-road systems worked very well and used massive upgrades to existing roads, that was simply to expencive. The smarter road option turned smarter cars. For starters they needed alot of sensors all around the car to help it protect the passengers inside of the vehical.
Driving Assisting is alot of help for people that are driving the Auto driving car! They have antilock breaks to help stop a crash waiting to happen. They also have a traffic jam assistant that funtions the speen up to 25 mph. Special sensors are behind the wheel so that the wheel makes sure that the driver keeps ahold of the wheel. The car can stear and use the break itself, and it can also warn the passinger when it wants the driver to take over the wheel. The car makes them take over the wheel because the car doesnt know how to get through work zones or around accidents. The way it helps people is the Auto brakes and the Traffic Jam Assistint, also the seats in the car vibrate the vehicle is in danger when trying to back up.
The laws focus on keeping drivers safe and the passangers safe while riding in this vehical. They also want to keep pedestrians safe when they are walking across the road or on the side walk! Most states these Auto Driving Cars are illigal like in California, Navada, and Flordia. The law acually agrees that these cars are safer even from all the stupid people whp drive on the roads.
I think that these Auto driving car would be alot safer! It will help people who like to text while driving and it will help people get in less recks in the future. I think that google making this Auto Driving Car was a fantastic Idea and i think alot of people will injoy them!
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Seagoing Cowboys
Imagine you're on a cattle boat about to dock. You are helping by giving the animals away to poor people. Well Luke Bomberger did just that. Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 time and the Pacific Ocean twice to go help peole that were stuggling. You should become a Seagoing Cowboy because you would help people in need, it's a once in a lifetime expirience, and it is fun.
In my opinion, being a Seagoing Cowboy is fun. Other might think it isn't fun at all. However, in the text it states that the cowboys play basketball and volleyball. The text aslo states that they would have table tennis tournaments, boxing, fencing, reading, and they would play games. These details prove that maybe you'll have fun being a Seagoing Cowboy.
I believe that it is an once in a life time expirence. Others might look the other way and think the opposite. However, Luke said that it was a once in a lifetime expirience. Also, in the text it said that Luke got to see the Panama Canal. These details prove that maybe you'll get to see a lot more if you become a Seagoing Cowboy.
I belive that becoming a Seagoing Cowboy helps people. Some people think that you could get hurt yourself then who whould help you? However, in the text it states that it helped people who lived in Eurpoe and China. Also, in the text it states that it made people more aware of other people in other countries. These details prove that you could help a lot of people in need.
In conclusion, you should become a Seagoing Cowboy because you would help people in need, it is a once in a lifetime expirience, and it is fun. Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantisc Ocean 16 times and the Pacific twice to go help people in need. So, you should go and sign up to become a Seagoing Cowboy.
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Would you want to be able to know how your peer is feeling without even having to ask them ? It would be a great movement but would it make teenage life harder than it already is ? The Facial Action Coding System(FACS) is valuable for students in a classroom . Reason being is school is the only place students can run to too hide their feelings. If we are able to see how a student is feeeling we can help with any problems , bring classmates together, and have happeir students.
Knowing how your student is feeling as a teacher can be hard because you just cant soak into the childs brain. With the FACS nwo you can , you able to detect hwo that person is feeling . this can help a lot with when a student is feeling sick and it scared tor talk . In the article it says, "The facila expressions for each expression are universal", this means it can detect most comman emotion faces . Most human would likr the idea because its almost like your a mind reader with a little computer help .
The FACS would also be valuable for students in a classroom because it would bring classmates together . By know howing their peer is feeling many kids would try to figure out whats wrong with that child. They would definetly enjoy this creaction . " For instance, you can probaly tell how a friends is feeling simply by the look on her face". thats how most children think they are reading their freinds mind but technology has expanding it in a more valuable way . Classes are dying to have this creation as of today after reading the article.
Many other students may think that FACS is a bad idea simply because this is showing your personal feelings and some might be insecure of allowing that happen. Parents might get involved and say that they don't want their child going to a certain schools because of FACS . What the parents and some children are missing is the FACS can bring happeir students . I know this because in the article it says " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomign confused or bored", and that is a very neccesary detective system . Reason being is because the shy students will never raise their hand and tell the teacher that they don't understand; being shy make it harder for the child to learn. Just being able to identify that about a child can make thier school days happier .
In conclusion to the FACS , the syemtem is very well put together and is very valuable to have in classrooms . Being able to read emotion of a person is similar to being able to read the mid of a person . Meanwhile you have your people who dissagree but, soon as they experience it they will fall in love . "The Mona Lisa is really intened to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do."
, as said thats just what it will do . If we are able to see students emotion it will bring classmates together , help swith students problem and bring happeir students to school each day .
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Do you want to travel around the world for a cause and a good reason? Here is a reason, join the seagoing cowboys program. The only problem is if you get sea sick a lot, cause we are out on the sea. You will be seeing great and unimagianable sites. There is fun fillied activies we will have aboard. You will be also helping out the war, and you will be transporting supplies to the war sites.
If you like fun this a chance you will want to take. You will be traveling to great places around the Earth. Such as Geece, Europe, China, and other destinations too. If you aboard the ship you will be in heaven with all of the amazing games and fun activitys. Such as "Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time."
If you abourd the ship you will be a big help with the war going on. You will be providing supplies for them. Such as horses, tools, and many other stuff for them. They need our help, your help to help us help them in the war. If you don't take this offer you will be letting done the army in the war.
Speaking about supplies you would be helping the armies animals by being our night watchmen. You would have to wake up every hour or so to check up on the animals. Just in cause someone wants to take the horses.
You will be doing amazing stuff aboard. Including helping the war, the animals, and us. The fun you wont even think of. So come join us on our serious, but fun filled adventure on board.
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Luke just got out of high school. He now has two jobs, one at the store the other at a bank. Then out of thin air his friend don ivites him to go on a trip. Don was going to Europe on a cattle boat to help people in ruins from World War II. so Luke thinks, this is a opportunity of a lifetime so he said yes to Don.
So they get on the boat where they are taking 335 horses plus their food. The whole crew takes turn caring for them. There are also nightwatch men who watch the animals through out the night. On one rainy night Luke was the watchman he went to tell the captain his hourly report. After he did he slid down a slippery ladder and landed on his backside. His heart raced as he shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small piece of metal stopped him from going overboard. He was happy to be alive but he could not work for a few days because he had cracked ribs.
He turned 18 on a trip to Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. When his draft board found out that he was on a cattle boat trip they told him to keep doing trips. Lukes most fun times where on the way back from somewhere. Because they had dropped off all of the animals so they could play in the huge place where they had been.
And after all of the adventures he was happy that he had the opportunity to do that it really opened up the world to him.
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile",the author tells us about the Facial Action Coding System allows computers to identify humans emotions. This article provides how they can show that this device knows how to make an idenitfication.
First, the author states how this device can read are emotions. This device is idetified as Facial Action Coding System. In paragraph 1 the author states "at least acording to some new computer software that can recongize emotions". The author also states in paragraph 1 how "Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computer to comunticate". This device can reconginze are emotions in a new way that could help are teachers.
Second,the author states that are emotions are getiing identified by a device. In paragraph 6, the author states that,"if you smile when a Web ad appeears on your screen, a similar ad might follow". Another example in the same paragraph But if you frown,the next ad will bedifferent "A classroom coputer could recongize when a student is bceoming confues or bored". Also in paragraph 3,"For example , your frontails pars lateralis mucsle (about your eyes) rasies your eyeborw when your suprised:your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tighten your lips to show angery". This shows how the device can idetify are emotions.
Finally,the author states how this device works in the situatuion that it does. In paragraph 3,"The process begins when the computer constucts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like a human muscles". Another example,"Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movement- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." This shows that the device can idefity from picture and human facial recongition.
All of this information that this aticle gives might be a good thing for student to use in a classroom. This device could tell teachers if there making there student intrestend in class. It might helpp to learn more about what will make the kids more intrested in class . Instead of sitting there sleeping or not doing anything. This device could make people more happy in classeroom.
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Automobile accidents are very common in suburbs and in cities. Car reduced communites would not only help help us us a world financially but also help when it comes to our health. Robert Duffer and Elisabeth Rosenthal explain and inform the advantages of limiting car usage.
Cars in this day in age seem like a necessity when it comes to transportaion but cars being the main source of transportation isn't always a good thing. Many countires are beginning to promote the philosophy of car reduced communites. According to David Goldberg, " All of our develpoment since World War II has been centerd on the car, and that will have to change ". Cars being the main focus of transportaion is not good. The gases from the fuel produces pollution which eventually leads to harmful diseases. We should take more advanatge of our technological advances and come up with a safer, effective, and more economical way to transport our everyday citizens. Imagine if we stopped using cars. The air we breath in day by day would be cleaner, we would all have more money, and their would be less automtive accidents day by day which is one of the main reasons are population isn't increasing as fast as it could. Smog is the main harmful effect of abusing our car usage. Source 2 states that " After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving bam to clear the air of the global city ". The city of Paris is probably one of the most visited city in the entire world so for them to have to stop car usage due to smog is a big deal. Studies have shown that cars are very dangerous and harmful yet we still drive them everyday unconcontious of the fact that day by day were slowly making it harder on ourselves as humans to even survive. Cars are the main source of transportation now a days but its clear to see that the use of cars opposes many disadvantages.
Car-free days would be very effective when it comes to the conservation of our people. Bogata Colombia has come up with the idea of car free days but is this idea more effective them it is ineffective? According to Source 3 " It was he third straight year cars have been bannned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of & million ". You can only imagine how positive this idea actually ended up being. Many people thought that it was a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. Having many more of these days world wide wouldn't harm us (unless we allow it to becasuse we've become so dependable on these machines ) but it would would help our planet become cleaner which tends to relieve stress. With the realization of the fact that cars are better helpful then they are harmful many people may stop buying cars. Source 4 claims that " President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emission, unveiled last week, will get a fortutious assist from an incepient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, drving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by ". Many citizens are beginnning to focus and understand that presrving our populaiton is more important then going where they want when they want to. The concept of car-free days seems to be the better route to choose when it comes to survival, living, and a stressless environment.
Automible accidents are becoming very common in surburbs and cities. We as a people need to more contious on healthier and cleaner communites so that we can begin to produce healthier children. Healthier children means focused children and citizens. Children that are focused on having goals and having careers that help our planet.
We should make the smarter decision to be less selfish and more selfless so we as a people should reduce car usage so we can continute to grow as a population, culltivate, and explore together.
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Imagine you are a scientist at NASA sicussing the face withsomeone who thinks it was created by alliens. Well we all know that alliens are not real it has been provin many time by other scients. I would unerstand why people would think it was created by these myth cretures, but u also got to think about how land andother things can form tier self in to living fetures like for some exsample. On an sunny day you look outside and u see some clouds and you stare at it for a while. Than all the sudden u see faceses and animals that you reconginize. Like one day I saw a little dolphine in the sky and I got the thinking theirs no wasy their could be a dolphine in the sky. So thats like me saying that thiers a man shaped face on mars tat could have been civilisation on the planet of mars, but dont think wrong i believe that its possabel for people on earth to actual live on that, because theirs other scientists that has proven that to most people and their starting to recrute peopole to actual go to mars. Also their for in the passage it saids it was a huge rock formation like come on now we know a real life humae face is not as huge for it to be spotted from face. Also on mars their is a lot of diffrent shape and sizes and holes like in the moon so its just do univers doing what it does best to form diffrent imagies and diffrent shapes like the was it formed earth and broke diffrent things apart and also land. If u also look in the passage at paragraph 12 it saids in the first sentence that. What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa----LANDFORMS common around the american west. to also make people intrested in the artical the put a. Huge rock formation from mars so theri for their also saying it was made from these mythical cretures called. Alliens and why would alliens want to make a human face in the first pllace if you think about it it actually make sense. For them just to attract people to a new land form that they have found that has a more like humans fetures. So thats why i say that alliens did not make that image or a landform human like image on mars. So thats what i was a scientist at NSAS discussing the face with someone who thinks it was alliens that formed a human like imagie on mars.
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Driverless cars should be developed and used. There are many ways that driverless cars could help us. Safety is a main concern but many accidents occur due to the driver being disctracted or someone else's fault.
Driverless cars will have sensors to stay on a certain course and not get off track. The sensors could also detect if something is too risky such as backing up in a parking lot. When a time like that occurs the driver must drive the car until the car can handle the situation.
Many accidents occur due people using a celluar device and losing track of where they are. In a driverless car this could be prevented because the driver is not driving the vehicle. They could use their phones but they must know when the car cannot be piloted in a sticky situation. A driverless car could also be used as a taxi driver for those that drink and drive. Driverless cars can also help semi truck drivers that drive around for hours and hours.
Advanced computer systems could be put in the driverless cars to prevent enviromental issues on the road. The systems could also prevent possible rollovers and sliding off the road. It will be very costly but we can save many lives and prevent many accidents from occuring.
So driverless cars can prevent many accidents and they could help many people in making their job a whole lot easier. It will be costly but it will be worth all the lives that can be saved and helped.
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he state Senator of Florida, lets try and keep the electoral college. These are the facts that willmake want to vote against the popularity vote for presdency. The big states (large population count)of the United States will have an overruling vote against smaller states(lower count of population), some states big state will convince other states to get one of their senators to party up, and the disputes that will occure of the sharing of population vote.
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ne of the first problem will occur is the large population states(California, Texas, and Florida, New York, Ohio, Pensilvannia)will have overruling vote on small population states. In source 3 paragraph 4 says,"Large states get more attention from presidential canidates in a campaign than a small state does." This means that large states ingulf all of the attention from smaller population states. Later will be a growing concern for the Electoral College.
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nother problem eould be that large population states will convience smaller population state to help them in the vote for a presidentional race AKA swing states. This winner takes all voting style will effect the people of the swing state and the real verdict the people want or what s best for the state.
I n 2002 a dispute rang out over the winning canidate's share of the Electoral invariety rexceeded his share of the populariy vote. It is impossible to get a tie in Electoral college ,so you will always find who will president. One problem would be the landslide that will occur rarely.
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hese would be major problems that will occur and it will be delt with of the populariity vote for presideny and how Electoral college should be kept in the United states Goverment.
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5 seconds; 5 seconds is all it takes for a driver to make a crucial mistake the could cost you, or another driver's life. Every day, accidents occur that can leave automobile owners disabled or even lifeless. Many car manufacturers have realized this and have already made attemps to fix this issue. The creation known as the "Smart Car" is believed to have a better response time, and more control than a human driver could manage themselves. I believe "smart" cars are the future to a safer road, , as well as a break while the car does all of the busy work.
As stated above, Smart Cars are the future to a safer road. A World Reknown Innovator, Google, has made steps towards this since the 2000s. In 2009, they created a car that could drive under it's own control without the use of a foreign imput. Their computer-controlled cars have driven "more than half a million miles without a crash." This new-age technology is all a result of position estimating sensors, a rotating sensor on the roof that has a constant updating 3D model of the car's surroundings, also including more radar sensors scattered all over the car. How's that for safer driving?
The biggest concern for the legality of the car is whether or not it can meet the requirements of what the law has in place. Many qualifications must be met to have these on the streets. The issue is, who's fault is the accident. The creator or user.
All of these features sound exciting and you may ask yourself, "What's the catch?" In order for proper safety percausions to be in place, the driver is requires to be alert at ALL times. BMW, a leading car manufacturer, announced their creation known as the "Traffic Jam Assistant," in 2013. This car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves like most smart cars. However, it is required that the driver keeps their hands on the wheel at all times when the car is in motion. Other manufacturers have taken similar steps, such as GM's vibrating seat when the car could be in potential danger while approaching another car, and Google with a heads up display indicator.
To conclude, safety is the main priority of car manufacturers world-wide, as well as the Law. Through years of innovating, the idea of a car that can ensure safety as well as entertainment, while being street legal, appears to be within grasp. By 2020, many car innovators plan to have the ability to do so. The question now is, how much better can it get?
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I believe that the use of driverless cars is a decent idea, although it does have it's downsides. The idea of drivers and passengers not having to drive themselves would provide a luxury feel to most participants in the driverless car "movement." This could also help with very common safety issues: texting while driving, intoxicated while driving, or just flat out not paying attention.
In paragraph 10, we see that not only is the driverless car and idea, it's happening. If these manufacturers are still running on track, then we should start to see the sprout of driverless cars this year. This implys that people need to start thinking and making decisions on whether they want to sit back and let a computer do the work or not. While I can see the problem of boredom, stated in paragraph 8, I think that this would empower the driver more. He/she would be able to kick and and enjoy the ride without paying 100 percent of their undivided attention to the road. Long trips and vacations would be made much easier with this, or even for truck drivers who drive late at night.
The United States has been exposed to a large amount of deaths from texting while driving, this could be the end of that. While they would still need to pay slight attention to the warning signals given that they need to grab the wheel, if the driver picked up his/her phone while a computer drove them around, it wouldn't be too bad. Another issue imposed on drivers is being intoxicated and driving. This would also be solved with a driverless car. The driver wouldn't pose a danger to themselves or the passengers in the vehicle if being almost chauffered around. This however could still be an issue if the car needed the driver to take control.
I believe that a driverless car would most definitely benefit drivers everywhere. It could solve many issues that stand due to full attention driving and would cut the death rate from car accidents by a large chunk.
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I think driveless cars are kind of a issue but again i don't think it is becuase it would kinda be difficult or weird for a car to be driving by itself with you in you wouldnt be that used to it as if you were driving it your self. It would be difficult for me because im not used to it at all. I think it would be awkward to drive without steering or driving car yourself. What if you fall asleep while the car is going by itself it would be so weird because you will feel so awkward for it to be going by itself. It would be awesome because its somehting new in the world so everyone will want to test it out around the world. I bet most people are tired of driving by there selves anyway. I would most definetly try it out if it were to happen in Anderson, IN or somewhere near close by. I hope it does happen soon so i can get new car. Whoever get this car in the future please be safe becuase you never know what could happen in this world with a car like that.
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The Article "Driverless Cars are Coming" the author introduces the idea of cars without drivers. This car will be controlled by itself with the assistance of a driver. This new idea is very controversial considering the positive and the negative aspects of a computer generated car. The computer generated car should not be put into use because it is dangerous and untrustworthy.
The driverless car is dangerous because it still requires a human in th vehicle monitoring it. For example, in paragraph 7 it states "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and accidents." this is supporting the idea of how unsafe this gadget is. If the driver is not fully attentive at all times they could crash and wreck havoic on anything around it. This computer controlled vehicle is also untrustworhy because technology is not perfect and can break down at any moment. The question in paragraph 9 "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" supports the idea of the distrust and disconnect. If the vehicle loses control and kills a pedestrian, who is to blame? It could go either way because the driver was not attentive or the computer malfunctioned.
In conlcusion, computer generated vehicles are not reliable and are unsafe because of the high dependency on the human. Some people may claim that it is safe because of the vibrations or alarms that go off if the vehicle is in danger. However, this still is not enough to gurantee the safety of others on the road or pedestrians. If the driver patroling the car were to have a medical emergency and could not attend to the car because of their medical state, the car would not have anyone to redirect it. This is why I am against the use of driverless cars due to the unreliability of this invention.
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The reason is, Venus is the second planet from our sun. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Even though Venus is despite the danger it presents studying can helps in thr future. The study might not help now but when something happned on Earth, it surely will helps and will be worth it. Even if it doesn't help, studying and knowing good. Paragraph 5 says "Not easy conditions, survivable for humans."
On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degress Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. The conditions of Venus are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. However, peering at Venus from a ship or orbitting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atomsphere.
In Paragraph 8, it states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should expanded to meet the very deges of imagination and innovation."
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If i was a scientist at NASA and i had to support thr fact that i think the face is a naturual landform I would empasize that, Life on ars is not likely becuase it has not beeen proven. Just because there are items or land marks that lead to life on Mars does not mean there has been any. Theface is indeed a natrual landform, how? because if you go by the diffrent images included in the article you notice the cleared the images,the face slowly dissapears or fade away. The Face can also appear by things in spaces or objects reflecting unto the mesa.
There are many landforms in Mars and the Face happens to be one. For people to say that aliens are the ones causing it to look like a Face is also a arguement. Why ould support this detail? because of so many life forms on Earth people assume that someone had to make that happen. Perhaps aliens did indeeds have something to do with the "Face" , why would they make so clearly and if they did , why did updated cameras show that the clearer the image the face slowly decided to dissapear.
On the other hand there are people who support the fact that the Face is just another landform on Mars. Well as you can tell Mars always had many landforms and The Face happens to be one. How can you prove that? people might ask. Well when Viking caught the images of the Face, ot certainally goes along with the fact that it does look like a FAce but agai the clearer the image got, the face slowly dissaper. When the face does disspear, slowly the landform starts to look like all the other landforms on
Mars or mesas.
Mant people doubt the fact that it is alien, why? because you usually do not see aliens in sight, unless you are watching a movie or reading a book about them.
Aliens could hav eindeed built it , but there has not been an actual sighting on aliens anywhere on Earth, and aliens are usually portrayed as bad people or ting sin movies or books so seeing that a Face on Mars is created by a alien would be kind of frightning because if they are portrayes as bad thing , why would they want a face on a landform. What does that mean?
Now on my side of the story or opinion it clearly looks like a landform and the way it got it's "face" was by something reflecting off an object and making it seem like someone had of built that,
But again. those images do not show anything about a face and how could have "aliens" buolt something so clearly and so presised. The clues just don't go together.
In conclusion until realistic facts are proven i would stick wit the face that these are natrual landforms and "aliens" had nothing to with the fact that they built it.
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There are many ways a person can get from one place to another whether it is by bus, plane, train or car. Car and truck transportation is one of the leading causes in air polution. Ruducing the use of cars will be beneficial to the public, not only on the streets, but to the citizens themselves.
To start off, the reduction of cars on the streets will cause less stress to the people who drive them. For example, in Source 1 it shows how a woman is happier and the loss of her car has changed her life for the better. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," she says. The tension of being in a car and waiting in traffic can be stressful and cause people to get impatient, grumpy, and even irritated. The woman proves that her life has changed because she doesn't have to go through that anymore. Her car-less life is the one that makes her happy.
Besides that, not only does car reduction cause better mood for people, but it also lessens the air pollution and makes the enviornment cleaner and better for people to live in. According to Source 4, "If the pattern persists- and many sociologists believe it will- it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviornment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants." This proves that when cars are being used less, there is also less carbon emission into the air and that is helpful to the enviornment. This benefits and makes the air cleaner and safer to breathe.
Now with every thing good, there is always a bad. In source 2 it is explained how the delivery companies were complaining of lost revenue. Yes, this will be a problem with the delivery companies, but there are other ways of transporting goods to their destination such as by train, boat etc. Also in Source 2 there were arrangements made for the the cars to go out on certain days, so the delivery companies' problems were not all that bad. The reduction of cars benefits the public more than it what it hurts.
The results of limiting car usage has been greatly proven through studies done (in source 4) and it is believed that it should continue to be limited and or reinforced. The people are happier, the enviornment is safer and the air is clean. There is more help than there is hinder and soon it will be seen throughout the world that cars are better in the garage.
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From an article, Driverless Cars Are Coming, the author reveals that driverless car could result in positive way or negative way. I am in the position of developing of driverless car because driverless car would change the transportation system. Although the car is still in development, it is getting closer day by day. The technology we have right now and upcoming technology could totally suport driverless car. The driverless cars would not be available to the peoples unless it is 100 percent safe and only if the
law approve it. All the driverless car are under developent and other than that there are special features for cars that
are being made
such as driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object and flashing on the windshield.
In order to achieve the driverless, it does require lots of sensors. One of the Google's modified Toyota Prius driverless car uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roff, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beam to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surrounding. This combination of all this sensors
is necessary for the driverless car to reach the the skill of a human at the wheel. Google's driverless car have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash, which prove that drivecarless are safe. However the driver still need to be alert to take over when pulling in, roadsblock, roadword or accident. It is proven that the driveless car is safe because driveless car itself have lots of advance technology and in the future the technology will be still improving.
The driverless car could drive more safe than a person. Driverless car has a sensor that read the miles limit and it does not whenever you wish to. Driverless car drive the way the law expected for all car drivers to drive. Most accident were caused by speeding. Peoples speed up the car whenever the cops is not around or when they are drunk. Most car drivers that pulled over by cops are because they broke the law. When people do not obey the law, there are more chance of accident.
One out of ten people died due to car accident in world wide scale. Drivers that drive the car while they are on drug most likely cause the car accident. If the driveless cars are available, the driver does not have to worry about whether his safety because the driveless car would take care of it. Although cops punished
people that drive while they are on drugs, which is also know as DUI are most likely to repeat again what they used to do. People's brain is not well function when they are under the drug which led to so many cars accident.
Driveless cars are safe for humans and also they will change the future of transportation. However the driverless cars are under testing and improving the development, they are safe for our transportation system. Each day the technology are helping us to reach our goals to achieve the driverless cars.
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Millons of fatal crashes are reported to occur each year. Most of these crashes are reported to have been due to driver error. What if there was a way that we could still be able to get to the places we want to go safely, and efficently with the use of a vechicle, but without actually having to drive. The new innovation of "Driverless" cars could have so much to offer. Driverless cars could let people with disablities be able to go places on there own and become more independent, it could also begin steeply decrease the amount of crashes each year that are due to drinking and driving, and it could save our economy plenty of money and gas.Due to the better fuel efficency a driverless car has to offer.
Many of adults of the legal age to drive are unable to be indepent in getting
places on there own due to a disability that makes it unsafe, or even impossible for them to drive. With the invention of driverless vechicles, it could potientally provide a way for people with disabilites to be able to drive, and own there own vechicles. This would be a great thing for people with disabilites, because it would open alot of opputunites that they never have had the chance to do before, and overall would give them a sense of indepency.
So many people have been victums that have been severly injured, or even in some cases killed due to a crash caused by a drunk driver. If driverless cars are legalized, this could change dramtically decrease the amount of cases of crashes due to drunk driving that occur each year. If people were able to safely get home on there own while under the influence, without even having to step behind a wheel it would create better and safer enviorments for anyone planning to travel on the road.
Alot of people argue that driverless cars would be pointless because the average everyday person would never be able to afford one. Although even though buying a driveless car could be at intial buy a pricey investment the end result you would actually save money. The driverless cars that are already in process of being manufactored are all extremly fuel efficent. As stated in the article the driverless cars are forseen to only use "half of the world's fuel of today's taxis". If driverless cars use better efficeny, than the average person will then spend less money on gas. So after a few years the intal price of a driverless car will be a good investment to make
Driverless cars truly do have alot to offer. They are very innovative and they can improve the lives dramatically of everyday people, including those with disablitles limiting them to be unable to get places on there own. Drunk driving rates could steeply decrease if we begin to use driverless cars, and even though it is a more pricy investment, the amount of money, and gas it can save the average everyday person will make a driverless car a smart investment.
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Driverless cars have always seemed like a likely thing for my generations lifetime. In fact, we thought we would be using flying cars by the time we were older. However, it is difficult to decide if driverless cars are a good thing or not. As far as the tests they have run go, the driverless cars seem safer than cars with drivers, and if the cars are fully automated they can reduse factors such as emotions, fatigue, and stress. However, technology can fail, which could lead to the cars being dangerous. I think, though, that driverless cars are a good idea because they can eliminate factors that can lead to humans crashing and they will make transportation easier for the standard person.
The first good thing about driverless cars is that they are not affected by many factors that can affect human drivers. The computers that run the automated cars will not get fatigued, while many people fall asleep at the wheel and can kill others or themselves. Also, these cars will not be affected by emotions such as anger at other drivers, which can lead to aggressive driving and mistakes on the road. Plus, the cars will be able to see almost as much as their human counterparts as long as their radars, such as the LIDAR, are powerful and accurate enough to send an accurate reading back to the computerized vehicle. This will hopefully mean that the driverless cars will crash less because of factors such as emotions and fatigue.
Another reason why driverless cars are a product to look forward ot in the future is that they will be able to form a "taxi system" of driverless cars. This would make transportation more practical and easy for many people. The driverless cars would be more practical for some people because, if they can completely drive themselves, the passengers would not need a liscence or insurance like they would if they were driving the car themselves. However, the car would perform the same duties as a car they might own, unlike other forms of public-transportation. For example, busses cannot pick you up or drop you off at your home, so if the bus stop is not near to your house, it is not reasonable to ride the bus to work or other places. However, the taxi service would be able to pick you up no matter where you were. This would also be helpful if you were stranded somewhere and you needed help.
A final reason why driverless cars are an exciting innovation is that they are much safer than the standard car with a human driver. Google's driverless cars "have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." This is an incredibly high mileage for never having a crash, and it shows that these cars are going to be incredibly safe when they are released to the public. Even thought the cars are still just being tested, they have never had a crash. Granted, the cars are not completely driverless, but the safety of the public is still the most important thing in the minds of many car manufacturing companies. These cars will prevent many people from being killed or injured in car accidents.
All in all, driverless cars are going to be something that will be incredibly helpful in the future. They help to reduce the factors that affect drivers, they will be more a very practical form of transportation, and they seem to be, in general, safer than other vehicles. The advances that have been made in the automobile industry in the last 100 years are truly worthy of our praise. We have come from incredibly basic cars to cars that can drive themselves, for at least some of the time. However, when you look at all the progress that we have made, it forces you to think about what we will come up with next. Maybe, flying cars are not that far away from being a reality.
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After reading this article I have to a decision that I am in agreement with the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. In a classroom setting full of students there can be many emotions. Some are facially expressed. Some are verbally expressed. And some just aren't expressed at all.
In a classroom there are always emotions being expressed in some sort of way. Most of the time we can recognize someone is happy or sad or angry whatever it may be, but what if someone has multiple emotions at one time. They're showing mixed emotions and sending mixed signals? Will we be able to recognize the emotions being expressed? In the majority of these cases we will not.
Fear not,for our fellow scientist have be working on a software that can detect any emotion even mixed emotions. In paragraph 4 Dr. Huang lets us know that the facial expression for each emotion is universal even though individuals show varying emotion. In paragraph 5 he gives an example of how you can tell when your friend is sad but you can have trouble identifying other expressions on that friends face.
In paragraph 6 he said what if a classroom computer recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor. That would be an awesome piece of technology.
In conclusion I think that having this software would be an enrichment to learning environment in schools around the world. This software could possibly prevent suicide. The root of suicide is mainly because of feelings and emotions not being expressed.
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Is the Face on Mars created by an alien? No, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. The Face on Mars is a natural landform. The Face on Mars was not created by aliens because mission controllers checked twice, Scientist figure it's a Martian mesa, and NASA was looking for Viking 2.
Mission controllers checked twice to make sure it wasn't created by aliens. In the article the author states, the first time we took pictures of the Face we had to go through clouds, skeptics thought that alien markings were hidden by haze. The author also states, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" These two details prove that mission controllers checked twice to make sure that the Face on Mars was not created by aliens.
Scientist figured it's a martian mesa. In the text the author claims, "Scientists figured it was just another martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egytpioan Pharaoh." The author also says, "A lava dome takes the fror of an isolated mesa about the same hieght as the Face on Mars." These two details prove that the scientist figured it was a martian mesa.
NASA was looking for Viking 2 so they could find Viking 1's sister. In the passages the author states, 25 years ago NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars snapping pictures looking for Viking 2, when it spotted the human face 2 miles big staring back at the camera. The author also says, "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
These details prove that NASA was looking for Viking 2, so they could find Viking 1's sister.
The Face on Mars was not created by aliens, it is a natural landform. The Face on Mars was not created because mission controllers checked twice, Scientist figure it's a Martian mesa, and NASA was looking for Viking 2.
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Hi my name is luke Bomberger and after you read this passage you are going to want to be a seagoing cowboy. There are many reasons why you should be a seagoing cowboy. Seagoing cowboys are the best and you will find out why in the next couple paragraphs.
Now let me talk to you about things we do as a seagoing cowboy. As a seagowing cowboy you get to travel around the world to help other places and countries from disasters. You dont just help places you help people and even animals which is the best part in my opionon.
There are other things to do as a seagoing cowboy then just helping places, people, and animals. You can make friends really easily, because everyone that work in the program are friendly and super nice. You can even play games on the trip to the places you are going to. Some of the games are whittiling, baseball, volleyball, fencing, boxing, and even table tennis tournaments does'nt that sound fun.
Once you join the program it really is a lot of fun. like I told you in the paragraphs above all the stuff we do as a seagoing cowboy is amazingly super. So now you know the reason why it is fun to be a seagoing cowboy and why peope love being in this program. Also being a seagoing cowboy is more than just an adventure it opens up the world to you.
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64f6bf4
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In the case of having a driverless car, I must say, I am definitely for the development of these futuristic masses of machinery. With that being said, here are some reason we should look into development. Techonology is on the rise, and I don't have a doubt that soon in the near future we are going to be able to have fully functioning driveless cars. There are so mant factors that tie into having a completely driverless car, but in the advanced age we are in we know that new techonology is coming in quickly with every passing day. The fact here is, that is is believed that in less than four years car companies and manufacturers will have autonomous cars ready for the road.
Technology, truly a beautiful thing. With the testing of new technology on a driveless car, there is definitely a way to get them to work properly on the roads. Yet, there seems to be some controversy let these pieces of machinery to roam where they please. Large masses of people are afraid of driveless cars. They come up with excuses on why they shouldn't be developed. Such as, there could be a problem with the manufacturing, but a manufacturer wouldn't send off a faulty autonomous car for selling would they? That's just reckless, unfathomable, and would make the manufacturer look bad, which is the last thing they could possibly want. Manufacturers are skilled people in the field they are in, and are doing what is possible with the skills they know to make good use of driverless cars and show that they are as safe as the could possibly be on the road. We shouldn't negelct their hard work and give them credit where credit is due.
Overall, I am for the development of driverless cars. Accomplishing a feat as big as creating a piece of machinery that can steer itself is a hard an requires complete understanding in technology. With how far we've made it already with the semi-driverless car, it is not unimaginable to have a complete driveless car. Our future holds great things, and among those is an autonomous vechicle.
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Technology that can read emotions can be valuable in a classroom. This technology can change people's lives by giving them a better chance to understand something if they are stuggling. It can also help out many students that are afraid to speak out.
The Facial Action Coding System would be useful in a classroom because it'll enable students to be taught according to there needs. In the passage they claim "...it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The technology can also be useful for students too embarresed to talk about something going on in their lives that need attention. They also claim "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Meaning it can also tell when a student is sad and they can get the help they deserve.
In conclusion, this technology has alot of potention in the future to revolutionize education for students. From knowing when they need help or they dont understand something, this tech will adapt to their needs.
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They should not take the electors college away because some people need it and more then 60 Percent of people had put there lifes work into that.
They need all of the support they can get in this fight for the world its there world there trying to fight and protect from getting kicked out of the system. They deserve a right to this and in 1968 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election if we didnt have the college. In 1976 a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters in ohio and 3,687 voters in hawaii had voted the other way. The election is only a few voters away from a catastrophe if it dose not hold its self together in the elector college .
The electoral college is unfair,outdated,and irrational. The best arguments in our favor is mostly assertions without much basis in reality.
The first time a vote will not win the national popular vote. yet that has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than bush yet fewer electoral vote, but that was the first time since 1888.
In 2012's election for example Obama recived 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percdent of the popular votes cast for him and romney.
The electoral college requires a presidential canidate to have trans-regional appeal. The residents of the other regions are likely to feel. This is why we should keep or lose the college electoral for big changes and its like the winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates- as we saw in 2012's election to focus their campaign efforts on the toss up states.
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Have you ever wanted to be a farmer or see European country's but just never had the money? Well now you can. All you have to do is become a seagoing cowboy. here are some interesting facts.
Being a seagoing cowboy can be fun but alot of work too. You have to go tend gargo with sometime's well over 335 animal. You don't just look at them though. You have to clean their stalles and feed and water them two or three times a day. The food is not just sitting outany where. you have to pull alot of hay bails and bags of oats from the lower holds of the ship.
Now we have talked enough about the cattle farming. Now lets talk about the sight seeing part. You don't just work on ships. Once you get to Europe you unload the cattle and you can sight seeing. You go pretty much any where. You could go to great wall of China or take a gondola or canal ride in Venice italy.
When your on your way back you get to play games in the stalls where the animal once were. You can play games like baseball and volleyball. You also get to play games like table tennis,fencing and boxing. You could also read and whittle to help pass time.
Now that you all know what a seagoing cowboy is I strongly encourge you to join and be a part of the fun.
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The face of Mars is a landform that looks just like a face. Even though it looks like a face, it has been proven that it is just a landform and if you zoom in on it, you can tell that it isnt manmade. There are landforms on Earth that look just like the face too.
Scientists have zoomed in on the picture and have proven that the face of Mars is just a Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Butte's, or mesa's, are landforms common around the American West and are also on Mars. The face of Mars is just a really odd shaped butte and people have mistaken it for alien structures. The face also kind of looks like a butte called Middle Butte in Idaho. People have also said that the face looks about the same height as the Middle Butte in Idaho.
The people at NASA had the first pictures of the butte zoomed out enough that it looked like a face. The NASA camera that takes pictures of Mars is in a wierd position so it doesnt pass the face that much and when it does, its not very close so when they zoom in, the pixels are too big to see. When they actually got a good picture of the face, people started to relize that it was just a wierd landform. When they got a good picture, people probably stopped thinking that aliens made it and just ignored it.
Even though scientists have proven that the face of Mars is just a landform, some people probably just think they are trying to cover it up. Landforms can have all kinds of shapes and the face of Mars just has a very unique shape. In conclusion, the face of Mars is just a odd shaped Butte.
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Unmasking the Face on Mars is a mystery that is still to be solved. Me as a NASA scientist, I have many pieces evidence to prove that this mysterious face landform was just caused by craters or natural weathring straking the red planet. My evidence will prove a person who believes in aliens creating this face incorrect.
To prove that aliens didn't have any effect on Mars, many natural landforms we have on earth can predict and support that this face was naturally occuring. These images in 1976, 1998, and 2001 remind scientists of the landforms on Earth such as a butte or mesa. To prove this, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) caught images of the face on camera. It was clear it was just a regular landform, not a special, purposefully made alien monument.
The technology we have today makes it clear that the face was just made by natural causes. Our cameras have a clear shot and bigger pixel size digital image. They would have seen any other objects located around the landform like airplanes or pyramids that people believe were made by aliens. There weren't any! The landform looks like a face in ways but it's easy to tell it was made by incoming asteroids on the landscape of the planet. The light from the sun and the shadowing just makes the landform look as if it had eyes, nose, and a mouth.
This evidence given proves a person who believes that aliens created this mysterious face on the red planet wrong. Through the process of unmasking the face, it is clear that natural disasters and weathering happened to create a resemblance of this structure. Unmasking the Face on Mars is still a mystery to be solved for years to come.
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The Face of Mars, could of been made up by anything like weather conditions, the way it rotates, or by aliens as what scientist at NASA might say. The pictures of the face of Mars shows that some condition has been making it look like a real human face over the past years. NASA is very high tech so they have some of the best scientist in the world working there and I'm pretty sure they know what their talking about. NASA has discoverd other very cool things about Mars over the past couple of years. But this is very intsrarresting because, finding a planet that might have a human face carved or made by aliens that is 2-miles long. Not that I'm on NASA side they could be wrong too. NASA is not the only place in the world people go too.
The picture shows a buttle or mesa, but like I said NASA doesn't know most of the stuff they think they know because they don't know weather its a buttle or a mesa. Again NASA is high tech some of the equiment is hand made aka manmade. I my opinion I do not believe in aleins because if they were real they wouldo've been invaded the world.
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Many times we have seen in movies where cars no longer need a human to be driven. It's hard to imagine that finally it is slowly starting to come into reality. Google says that they have had cars that could drive by themselves under some conditions since 2009. It's exciting to think how far technology has came but have you thought about all the cons this situation would bring? Driverless cars should not be developed because these cars would be to expensive to buy and fix, new traffic laws would have to be made to protect individuals in an act of an injury, and cars are safer when a human driver is in control at all times.
Due to the fact of how expensive these cars are to build, they will most likely be expensive to purchase and to fix. This idea of ¨driverless cars¨ would not go very far with it's ideas because not many people would be able to afford it. Only the people who have the money to purchase this car would have the luxury to own it. Cars like these would not be seen around like it is normal.
Let's say that this car is now open to the world, it's safe and you can now purchase it. You drive it and get into a wreck where people outside in the open get injured. Who'd take the blame for it? The car owner or the manufacturer? Many laws would have to be changed to protect the individual in cases like these. In some situations, manufacturers and the individuals would lose a great amount of money to cover the expenses that were damaged during the scene. New laws would have to be created to cover both the manufacturers and the car owners.
Traffic laws say that the only safe car has a human driver at all times. Unless they get the computers to act as a human brain does when in a dangerous scene, cars with a human driver will always be better. People are better off driving cars instead of having a computer do it. It would take a lot of work and money to have these driverless cars work as great as a human brain. Drivers, passengers and pedestrians should be safe at all times and with these cars it's very frightening having the thought of a car going into a computer situation and end up causing great damage to the passengers and pedestrians.
Although it is very exciting to finally coming to this point of technology, it's very important to think about all the cons these types of cars would have. Purchasing a car like this would be a situation you'd have to think twice about because of the great risk you'd be on if the car has a defect. To me, I would very much rather keep things ¨the old fashioned way¨ than putting my life in the hands of a computer. Driverless cars should not be developed because these cars would be to expensive to buy and fix, new traffic laws would have to be made to protect individuals in an act of an injury, and cars are safer when a human driver is in control at all times.
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Young people of this generation just sit on the couch and wach t.v or on their phones all day, not one of them want to explore because they're scared. Well i say" live for the day!" Only because you don't know whats gonna happen tomarrow.
Join the "Seagoing Cowboys", you can travel to Europe China and more, plus for some kids you can be drafted in the military service(thats a good way to start something after high school).If you still think it's not fun you get to play games like volleyball or tennis fencing and all on the boat.If you like animals then you can take care of the cattel or horses.
A boy named Luke joined and he loved it he had fun and he saw China,Euope,andCrete.Luke stated that he was grateful for the opportunity, and it made him aware of other people in other countries needs, so his family became host for international student and exchange visitors for many years.
So come join to be a "Seagoing Cowboy" it's
be a once in a life time experiance that can change your life for the good (it changed Luke's life).
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Imagine a world where there is no traffic or loud motor from cars passing by. Think of all the benefits that would come with less or even no cars on the road. Well in the city of VAUBAN, Germany they have almost completely knock out all the cars in the city. The city has car-free streets allowing more flow of commuters on bikes and walking. 70 percent of the families have no car with 57 percent that sold their car just to move there. Heidrun Walter feels much less tense now then when she owned a car. However some may ask "How do you get all you produce or go shopping?". Well VAUBAN is one step ahead because all the stores are within walking distance, rather then travling down highways crowded with daily commuters, and there are some public transport still make there way around town, such as the city's tram. One major problem with cars is the emmisions they let out. Now in cities like VAUBAN where there would be at most two cars on the same road, it's more of a minor porblem. But in cities like New York, where the streets are crowded with cars, it begins to cause many problems. The emmisons are known as greenhouse gas and can often choke a cities population. Now in a city like Paris how would people limit smog, and car emmisions. They chose to limit the cars, causing the separation of commuters driving days by license plate numbers being even or odd. They enforce this limit with a fine of 22 euro. Of course this took a little getting use to since it came so suddenly causing four thousand driver to be fined and 27 had their cars impounded simply becase they didn't like the fine. Now most people were probaly not to happy to be getting fined, however the statistic showed that the limit was working and traffic that was down 60 percent. However it wasn't completely the commuter fault, since france had a tax policy for gasoline many people prefered to use diesel which was about 67 percent of the vehicles. Even though most of the traffic was down by 60 percent, Paris still has more pm then most erupean capital such as Brussel's 114. In BOGOTA,Colombia they took the idea of a car free city with a different approach. Instead of outright, banning cars or placing limits on days certain people can dirve, they instead banned all cars for a day excluding buses and taxis. However instead of outrage by the public many of the colombians just walked, biked or took some form of public transport. Since the begining of the project in the mid 90s over 110 miles of bike paths have been cvonstructed within the city. Another benefit is the uprise in sports and park areas, restaurants and shopping districts, since people have more time to see things they like or want. Now most of this eassy is about orther cities in different contries, but what about us, the USA. Obama has revealed his plans to lower the greenhouse gas emissions. But it seems the people have already thought ahead as statistic show less cars licenses and driving over the years. Some say it was due to to the recsession since many people were to poor to afford a car or just didnt need one since the didin't work. Mr. Sivak's reasearch has proved that getyting a car is no lopnger a proirity but instead something you get if you have moeny. He states. Mine 19 and 21 have not bother to get a driver's license, even though they both live in places where it would come in handy." Even statistic show the between 2001 and 2009 young driver population has dropped 23 percent. The cars we use today are slowly edging their way out of our daily lives, and with the help of some laws, limits or outright bans cars will soon become a thing of the past.
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According to defenders of NASA if their was an ancint civilization on Mars NASA would benifit from it financialy. " NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." Also there is no evidence or traces of a Ancient civilization on Mars. Also NASA has no reason to try to cover up any civilization that we may not know about because they will be benifiting from that with more tax money from the government.
The reasons why NASA would not want to cover or hide an ancient civilization on Mars up is because they would clearly benifit from the sitiuation. " Defenders of the
NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." Also part of the reason they even made this picture avalible to the public is to bring attention to mars. " The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." If they wanted to cover this "Face" on Mars up there would have never been a photo releasead to the public so every one can look at and study.
After all of that information about NASA and how they would benifit from a ancint civilization on. Mars there is no absalutly no reason NASA would cover this up if they were going to benifit from the possibility of an. Ancient civilization on a planet that does not even have life today.
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Would you change history? Some people think that there some things that were made by our past Presidents should be changed. Such as our Electoral College, people say it should be changed to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. So we shouldn't change history we should keep the Electoral College.
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is requested to elect the president. Our states entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation. Now think about this if we were to go with this changing thing look at how many people would lose thier job. Therefore if the voting was by popular vote instead of by the Electoral College literally anybody could become President if there isn't anybody looking at it that knows what they are doing.
After the Presidential election,your governer prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respected electors. the Certificate shows that the winning Presidential candidate in your state and shows which will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in december of the election year. So without the Electoral College to make the decision of the President the governer can't make the "Certificate of Ascertainment" the other people and there respected electors won't get noticed for running.
Other people think that we should change the Electoral College to the election by popular vote. They think that under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors , who in turn elect the president. For instance, if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for whoever, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to that person. At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair. Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states.
The Electoral College is widely regarded as anachronism,a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be[overuled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the part's nominee; however, it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservaative reasons 1) Certainty of Outcome 2) Everyone's President 3) Swing States 4) Big States and 5)Avoid Run-Off Election.
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Okay so you're saying that aliens created this face on Mars?
Well let me tell you why you are wrong.
First of all, there are no such things as aliens, and if there were aliens they would have already done something to Earth and humans.
This Face of Mars was made natural.
As we already know Mother Nature can do things like this.
In fact, we see natural landforms everywhere.
The passage states,"Global Survey space craft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa."
Juat becuase you find something interesting on a different planet doesn't mean it was made by aliens.
The Man on the Moon for example it wasn't made by aliens, and nobody says it was, so then why should The Face on Mars be any different?
In one of the pitures in the passage it shows the "famous Face" and then you can see a hill next to the face.
It doesn't look like anything but a small hump, but its pretty much the same thing as the face, it's made of the same thing, but it doesn't have a face.
Now this why you should know that alliens did not creat the Face on Mars.
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Dear State Senator,
There is arising conflict on whether or no to abolish the electoral college system. It has it's pros and its cons but reasonablly, the cons out-do the pros. The electoral college needs to be taken over by popular vote in Presidential elections. It creates a more biased vote in the sense that the electors vote may oppose yours. On another note, the disaster factor is a negative factor of the electoral college.
First, in the electoral college, you will never be 100% that your states' electors will vote in your favor. By doing a popular vote, voters will be ensured that their vote is literally counting towards the candidate. For example, If you lived in Florida and wanted to vote for Mitt Romney, you'd vote for him. The electors may vote for Obama and just ignored the winner-take-all strategy and vote for Obama. In a sense, the electors may pay attention to the winner-take-all strategy. The problem is that in past elections, the popular vote has had majority and the electors vote for the minority.
Secondly, a flaw of the electoral college is the disaster factor. It is pretty much when a majority votes for a candidate and the electors give the minority vote. If the popular vote was to occur, then the candidate the majority wanted would've got elected.
To conclude, the electoral system should be removed because it is biased and popular vote will be more ensuring and 100% true. On my behalf, popular vote will be much better for everyone .
Sincerely,
Tj Gries
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Don't you ever think of joining the Seagoing Cowboys? Well you should consider it. Everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys because it's a great idea. I think you can learn so much stuff and have a wonderful time.
Joining the Seagoing Cowboys can be a terrific idea because you will have adventurous lives and so much fun! Luke had said" The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," He says." Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," he says." So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water."You will travel a lot and see so many places. You could also try new thing like the food. Their are so much cultures, and you will get to see many more you may also try and wear the clothes they wear, and do stuff like they are used to doing.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys it will be educational and you will end up finding yourself having a wonderful time. You will be looking forward to joining the Seagoing Cowboys, you won't even notice that the time flies by quickly. You may learn many stuff because you will be traveling to so many places, you won't even have to worry about gettiing lost because your team members will accompany you and, you'll even get supplies, if you need help they will help you they are really nice people and you don't need to have a worry.
Reuniting with the Seagoing Cowboys could be wonderful, you will have a great and adventurous trip. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you won't even realize that the time flies by because of the wonderful time you'll be having. I think everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys because it will be educational and you will help many people that need help and meet many people because, of the World War II and you will be able to experience outdoor natures that way you are not stuck inside the house playing video games or watching TV
and instead help those that are in need. What places would you visit if you wnet to China?
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The author is trying to slowly but surley teach us about the"evening star" which is venus. Although we can examine the planet from a far it wouldnt be of any use if unable to look at the planet closley. Also called the earths twin which only means their close in density and size and close in distance at times. Numerous spacecrafts have been sent to explore the cloud draped world and every mission was unmanned since no spacecraft managed to survive a landing for more than a few hours.
Venus's atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and contains highly corrosive sulfuric acid which wasnt safe for ant man or woman. These facts are little to none to what we could learn if we advanced our technology and support on the idea of exploring venus. NASA had thought of an idea to get closer to the planet which involved a blimp like vehicle hovering over the planet safely. This planet has value and our exploration shouldnt be limited by danger our own curiousity will lead us to explore deeper and ever far more than needed.
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Drivers should be in control at all times. Driverless cars are very expensive, there still needs to be a driver in the driverless car, and most importantly pedestrians and passengers know saftey is best achieved when there is an alert driver. Cars should be controled by people, not on its own.
Expenses to buy sensors and radar are at a high. In the text Sebastian Thrun says, " 'The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there. Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. Its wasn't something you could by at Radio Shack.' " This evidence from the text explains how the cost is a major issue in the driverless cars.
Driverless cars might still need assistance. The text states, "Why would anyone want a diverless car that still needs a driver?" This evidence from the text proves that that is an issue. A car is not technically "driverless" if it still needs a driver keeping alert of surroundings.
There are laws placed for a reason on all drivers. The text states, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and law makers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has human driver in control at all times." This evidence from the text proves that having these driverless cars can possibly cause conflict with the law. The text also proves that a driver is more alert of their surroundings as well.
Although it is more safe to NOT have driverless cars they also can help us. If the society were to use this type of car it can also notify the driver. According to the text, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are design to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." This evidence from the text clarifies that the driverless car is not completely "driverless" and still requires the drivers attention.
In conclusion, there are more reasons to not get the driverless car. The car would require a pretty penny, the car still needs a driver, and driving law could possibly be broken. The roads would be much safer with a driver behind the wheel, not a system of its own.
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You may believe that the face that you see on mars has been created by some other living thing or aliens, but it is nothing more than a natural land mass. The shadows casted on the mass makes it look like a face staring back at you, It seems to be quite menacing.
If you get closer to the mass of land you can see that is nothing more thann a 2 mile wide hill calles a mesa. you can find these on earth even, for insance in Middle Butte In the state of Idaho. This fact proving that it is nothing but a coincedence. From a distance the 1971 viking photo did look as if it was definately a face.
When this image was released everyon at NASA was shocked. They couldn't believe what they were seeing, then later we sent out a new spacecraft with a higher resolution than the old one. It proved that this mystery face was just a hoax. Some might wish that we would have found a secret civilization on Mars but those wishes won't come true.
As we develop more high-tech devices, cameras, and space crafts, We learn that everthing is not what is seems to be. Our newer cameras have about triple the resolution with each pixel spaning at 1.56 meters, while in the original viking photo the pixes are bigger with a span of 43 meters.
Your brain can play tricks on you, making things seem different to what they really are. these are called optican illusions. Don't let your mind trick you go with your gut feeling and choose the side that sounds more realistic to you. do you really think that aliens exist and could build something of those porportions?
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The Facial Ation Coding System(FACS) is seeming to be useful in a classroom because it can detect when someone may be confused on a certain subject. As well as the FACS can detect if there are emotional issues that are imparing the student to learn.
To begin with the FACS computer, it's seeming to be useful because if a student is being confused during a lesson and the teacher can be notified and the problem can be resolved. In addition the FACS can help a teacher by checking to identify if the students are genuinly having fun and not only be for the students but help the teacher create a mor fun and enjoyable time in class while still learning.
In addition, the FACS can detect if a student is havimg emotional issudes and the teacher or staff can see if they can fix the problem. And as well as fixing some problems at home because there are cases where some of the emotional problems transfer in to school and impare the student to learn.
In conclusion the FACS would be a great learning tool for the classrooms. Including helpful resource for students and teachers so they can make class enjoyable. And finally to help with figuring out the problem.
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Whether we have our license or not, we can all relate to the stress of the daily commute. As of the past century, cars have been one of the most efficient ways to get from point A to point B. Now, mainly due to air pollution, there has been a noticeable decline in the amount of cars used for travel. The advantages of limiting car usage include less stress, less air pollution, and an overall improved society.
The stress of traffic and the constant pressure to be on time would be significantly reduced if people chose other means of transportation such as riding a bike, taking public transportation such as the subway or bus, or walking. Source 1 shows just how effective decreased car usage can be. It describes Vauban, Germany, a small suburb community in which there is virtually no car usage. Many citizens report being less tense, as everything is made within means of walking- distance.
Another cause of stress from car usage is the effects it has on the atmosphere. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of the greeehouse gas emissions in Europe and 50 percent in some car- intensive areas in the United States.(Source 1) Paris is an excellent example of just how much car usage has had such negative effects on the atmosphere. Source 2 explains how Paris was so smog ridden it rivaled Bejing, China. Paris then placed limits on car usage until the smog cleared enough for the ban to be lifted.
Not only does decreased car usage help the planet, it helps society as a whole. Source 3 describes Bogota, Columbia and how it celebrates one day a year of no car usage. The city has found that not only has this policy helped claear the smog, but it is enthusiastically endorsed by the citizens. Most peole turned out to see the bike races, despite the occasional rain showers. This has caused two other Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar to join the event. Bogota has seen the construction of 118 bike paths, the most of any Latin American city. It is not just the government endorsing decreased car usage but people themselves. Source 4 points out how the number of miles driven per person was 9 percent below the peak. There are various explanation for why people are driving less, one might be that the internet makes increased telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without having to drive to them.
It is evident that we are witnessing a major cultural shift, possible degressing, but in the best possible way. The decreased incline to drive has resulted in less air pollution, a less stressed population, and an improved society overall.
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Studying venus is indeed dangerous but it does have a lot of fasinating things to learn about. Venus is a planet that has a lot of unanswered questions, and exploring it might give us those answers. Dangers are all over the world might as well take risks and find out what is going on in Venus.
To start, venus sounds really intresting and amazing by all those things that we read aboout the planet itself. Studying venus could bring us a lot of oppurtunities. In the story in paragraph 4 it says" Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may have once have been the most Earth-like planet in out soslar system." this shows that Venus has been like Earth in the past and it could still be.
Secondly Venus has been set to be really dangerous because it can have "Erupting valcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking land on its surface." But without actually going up to venus and finding out what it really has thats all just talk. For sure Venus can be dangerous but is it really a planet not a person can walk on? In paragraph 4 it say "Venus was probably largely filled with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth." If venus once may have had life and ocean on it Their may have a chance of still being able to have that.
Lastly Venus has very of intresting things to it. In paragraph 8 in the first sentence it says "Striving to meet the challenge by venus has a value, not only because of the insight gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will like lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This is telling me the enough people have so much Curiosity on the planet that one day people will actually want to know what is going on with it and will want answers. Yes the author is right Venus brings up a lot of dangers to it like acid or heat capable of melting tin, But NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus. But all of the dangers are going to be worth it once People figure out all these amazing things about Venus.
In conclusion I do think that Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. I hope you can read this and think that Venus would be an amazing planet to explore and find out good things about. It could have it's dangers but what you get out if it will all and up being worth it because of how much Venus
was so Earth-like, and how much good things can come out of it.
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"The Challenge of Exploring Venus." The author suggests that NASA working ans studying about Venus, and how it wored. The solars system was finding where the Venus and close to which planet.
Venus is actually a planet in the solar system, Venus is the second planet from the sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Venus is the closest planet to the Earth in terms of density and size. The experience extreme than
anything humans encounter on Earth, such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to driveing to the deepest part of the oceans.
NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans. However, oeering at Venus from a ship orbitign or hovering safely far above the planet can proide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere.
More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. The NASA is working one other stuff to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electroics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's suerface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions.
In conclusion, there was almost ninty seven percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfurice acid in Vnus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over eight hundred degrees Fahreheit, and
the atmospheric pressure is ninty times greater than what they ecperience on the Earth. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering thirty or so miles above the roiling Venusin landscape. At thrirty plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around one hundred seventy degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.
The though of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by useing the gears ans levers and do not require electronics at all. Venus has a value, not only because human curiosity will like lead us into the mnay equally intimidating endeavores.
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The Face on Mars was not created by aliens.
Pictures show that shadows from how the camera was located gave the formation the illusion of having eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
Also, the angle of the camera affected the way that the formation was seen.
Other scientists depended on the photographs of Cydonia to prove it was just a rock formation.
The first image that was seen showed that it was a natural landform, and was not created by aliens.
Furthermore, there are many other rock formations that look just like this one in America.
There is also no physical evidence that aliens had anything to do with this formation.
And it is not uncommon to see rock formations like these in places where they could occur.
There is no proof that aliens did not do it, but it is just highly unlikely because it has never been seen before.
To conclude things, the only people saying that this could be an alien monument are conspiracy theorists and they are not as reliable as scientists are.
Scientists have evidence and proof to back up almost all of their thoughts or theories, unlike these theorists.
These people do not have as much experience as the intelligent scientists do, so they cannot be trusted with the information that they give.
So that is why this normal rock formation was not created by aliens.
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Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a big honor. You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you get to help animals, you can vist many places, you learn responsibility, and you get to have fun on board after the animals are uploaded.
I know this becasue in the text it says UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and the mules that were shipped overseas. Another reason is in paragraph 9 it says Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. "I'm grtaeful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." And that awarness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
Those are some resons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. You get to help animals, you vist new places, and you learn responsibility. That is why you should consider joining the Seagoing Cowboys.
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You should join the UNRRA and be a 'seagoing cowboy'! Being on a cattle boat is an unbelievable opportunity. You get to visit different counteries and help people in need. It is also fun to take care of the different animals on board, like the cows, horses, and mules. I met many new friends while I was on the ship. There are many young men that joing every year, ready to make friends.
Like I said before, visiting different counteries is a new experince for many people. It's true! While I was on the ship,we visited Europe, China, Crete, and many other places. In Venice, Italy, we took a gondola ride though the streets of water. In Greece, we saw the Acropolis.
The animals would be a new experince for some of you. Horses are very gentel creatures. Cows can be crabby, but sweet. Hauling up the hay, oats, and water for the animals every day can be tiring, but it sure gives you muscles! If you are carfull, you can ride the horses around on deck, but only in calm seas!
The men are always so nice, and we have lots of fun together. We wittle and carve, box and fence, and sing songs. When the animals are unloaded, sometimes we play games in the empty stalls, like baseball and volleyball. We love talking about our family and sweethearts who are back on land.
Over all, I think that being a 'seagoing cowboy' would be a very good experence and many of you would find it very interesting. It is an unbelievable experince and taking care of the animals and people you meet is pretty cool. I hope you think about my offer and remember what I said about taking care of the animals, visiting new places, and meeting new people.
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Do you know what a Seagoing Cowboy is, After world war two was over many countries were left in ruin, so the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration UNRRA sent the ruined countries cows,horses and mules. The Seagoing Cowboys job was to take care of the animals that were shipped overseas. Luke Bomberger was a seagoing Cowboy who made eighteen trips as a seagoing Cowboy. I think that Luke Bomberg would want others to join the seagoing cowboys because, It could make you more aware of other countries, it is also fun and you get to experience other cultures.
I think that Luke Bomberg would want you to join the Seagoing Cowboys because you get the oppertunity to go to other countries and experience them. In the text it says "Besides helping I had the benefit of seeing Europe and China." the text says that because of the Seagoing Cowboy job he had he was able to experience other cultures and countries.
Another reason I think that Luk Bomberg would want you to join the Seagoing Cowboys is because it makes you more aware of other countries. In the text it says " It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." If Luke Bomberg had not become a Seagoing Cowboy he would not have realized the needs of other countries and their people.
I also think that Luke Bomberg would want you to become a Seagoing Cowboy is because it can be fun. in the text it says " The cowboys played baseball and volley ball in the empty holds where animals had been." Once the animals were taken off of the boat the cowboys were able to play games and have fun.
What would you do, would you become a Seagoing Cowboy? Think of all the benefits like the sightseeing, the fun and the growth of your awareness of all the other people in the world.
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The Facial Action Coding System is a technology created to help analyze a persons expressions. To use this in school it would help students in many different ways. With this technology it could also help adults to understand children emotions better. This could be a way to help find depressed students quicker and more efficiently. With this technology you could do so much more to help others.
One way to use this technology is by helping kids study. If the student shows boredom or struggles to stay on task. The machine recognizes it and changes it to another to see if the students becomes more interested. In that way students study in a way they like and they start getting good grades that will help them grow into mre successful adults. another way is to help teachers change up the way they teach when the machine notices students dozing off or not paying attention.
With this machine in schools this could help students grow to become even better functioning members of society. This could also help teachers become better at thier job by changing the way they teach to keep students more attentive in class. This could also help not just students and teachers. It could also help therapist to help them recognize if a person is depressed or not quicker to help them faster. Maybe one day it could even help robots have emotions.
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Although many people argue that the Face on Mars could, and or is an alien created artifact, there is much scientific evidence that contradicts this belief. When the Face was first spotted, it was nothing more than an enormous shadow that resembled a head. It had an astonoshing resembelance to an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, which caught the attention of many NASA researchers. After getting an up close view of the Face, everyone realized that this was just a formation of rock called a mesa, or butte, that was very common to see in this area of Mars.
This landform was confused to be a face since shadows allowed others to view it as if though it had a mouth, a nose, and a pair of eyes. NASA saw this as an oppurtinity to excite the public in order to get more people to focus, and discuss about the Red Planet. Once the Face was viewed by others, it became symbolic and it was often used as the topic of many novels and tabloid magazines. This sudden outburt into social media and literature caused people to conspire up a new story. That NASA was hiding the fact that there was an anciet civilazation they discovered, but never told about.
This is obviously false as NASA would benefit from discovering a trace of life on Mars. Very few scientists shared this thought and decided to get the benefit of the doubt by returning to the Cydonia region to reunite with the Face. Once being able to get a clear view of the Face, they got various snapshots. After the image was released to the public, it showed an ordinary landform which contradicted the theory of it being created by aliens.
Skeptic theorists continued to believe that since the camera had to peer through wispy clouds to be able to locate the Face, markings made by aliens were blurred and couldn't be viewed. Once again, NASA traveled to the Red Planet and took a piture three times larger than the original on a cloudless day. This image defended the fact that this wasn't an alien artifact nor a trace of human life on Mars . It proved to be a butte, a common landform found in this region of Mars.
The resolution was high enough that if there were any symbolic markings on the Face or any human related surroundings, they could be seen by the human eye.
The Face on Mars was proved to be a mesa, or butte. Which isn't only common in the Cydonia region of Mars, it is also common in the Southwestern states of the U.S. A Butte found in Idaho is equivalent to the size of the Face, proving that this wasn't an alien created monument.
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We should keep the electoral college because. It will allow votes to have a certainty of outcome, Requires a trans-regional appeal, and finaly to avoid run-off elections. This list will be baised on reasons and facts that i think will be sutible for my reason you may have your own facts and opinions but remember anyone can say what they think so this is what i think. Now let us begin.
First off i want to start with on how it will allow votes to have a certainty of outcome. In the source 3: in defense of the electoral college: five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president by: Richard A. Ponser he talks about that a dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote is possible-it happened in 2000-but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. Also he talks about winner-take-all basis, and that even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in the state. From what i understand is that electoral college helps create a winner-take-all basis.
Second i would love to disscuse how it requires a trans-regional appeal. In source 3 he talks about how the electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region (south, northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite such as Romney was in the south, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful
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Computers can help shape the world. With the help of computers, we can tell the emotions of mona lisa. Imagine all the things the world can do with that technology. Children can be helped if there emotions can tell if there bored so, lesson plans can be more exciting to them.
Helping children understand lesson plans is hard and have them not be bored of it is harder. Being able to scan there face and tell if there bored or not is crucial. The ablity to change there learnig style by just resding there emotion is amazing. So many kids will pass school like it was nothing. The dropout numbers will soon be little to none due to a computer reading there emotion. School wouldn't be a boring place to kids anymore but, a fun place to learn interesting subjects.
Reading a kids emotions is benificial in the schooling enviorment. There are so many benifits to it. Thinking its not is absoulutly crazy. The reading will help them in school to better educate them and see what learning style best fits them. The child is not giving up anything only simply learning what ways they learn the best.
The reading of kids emotions will be the best thing to the world. Kids will be less likly to dropout. They would learn in a better way. They wouldn't think school is a boring dumb place anymore and woulnd actually love to come to learn. Thats why reading kids emotions will help the education of kids in the future.
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I personal think that we shouldn't have driverless cars because they can dangerous to be in.
First, this is why i think we shouldn't have driverless cars because it can be dangerous while being inside, the car can misfuncation and what if you dont know how to stop the car. Maybe you forgot how to stop a car cause you got used to driving driverless so you got in a car wreck.
Second, driverless cars will make us lazy like the movie off Wall-E, some people don't know nothing about cars so they wouldn't care about who's controling the car. Who will be held fault, the driver or the manufacturer? That is reason why it's dangerous.
Finally, the real answer is will everybody accept the driverless cars or will it just be another downfall for humans of becoming lazy? I wouldn't accept it, even when i drive it's a lot of responiablity to be behind a wheel because you can cause crashes. Can you imgine a driverless car cause a misfunction or even worse a wreck.
That is why i think we shouldn't have driverless car because it's dangerous. Would you accept driverless cars or just let it be how it is? I wouldn't.
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My name is PROPER_NAME and i'am arguing about why I think driverless cars should not be built. My personal opinion is that people are the only thing that should be in control of a car so that there is not question on what happened if there was to be an accident. Is the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it even states that these cars warn the person in the car whenever they might have to take over because te cars can't move around an accident or for any other reason. The reason the cars do this is because they don't have the technology to navigate themselves through a car accident, around a construction site, or if there is major traffic ahead. I believe that these cars are unsafe and will cause harm to people because of the lack of fully advanced technology.
There are a few positives about the car such as being much more efficient on gas. The vision of these cars is public transportation. The insite on the cars is that they will be much more efficient than the everyday taxis that are used for transport and will be much more flexible that bus transportation. The only thng is getting the advanced technology that we need to make the cars function safely without any risk of an accident of any kind.
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Driverless cars may sound like a perfect creation but for me im not to sure if i agree with it. In passage 9 it states that " if technology fails and someone is injured ,who is at falut the driver of manufacturer"? This could be the altimate problem with building these cars. Unfortunitaly heres some facts about what I think so.
Yeah sure you would want to own a car that drives it self. Thats like the american dream, I mean who wouldnt. But there comes a time on the road that technology just cant control. With the use of sensors that can tell you when and where something on the road is coming up or if you are in a dangerious position is cool. But in the process of that happening is the technology reaction time to the danger fast enough to avoid it? Thats something they dont tell you. With the fact of technology not being that advanced at the time, this would cause loads of accidents with the cars. These accidents would sturr up all kinds of problems. Such as law suits from someone with serious injury, or maybe even lead to death.
BMW was only able to get a car to control its self at 25mhp in 2013, But the driver had to keep hold of the wheel. Gm created the vibrating seats for when cars are backing into danger, But what about the danger ahead of them. All these things that can cause major safety issues are being over looked.
Designing a driverless car is a good idea but in passage 8 it states "why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver"? This brings up all sorts of commotion about the driverless car. For starters if you say your designing a car that drives its self, why do the car still needs assistance from a human? This becomes even more of a problem when you have states that dissagree with the driverless car and have laws that go aginst it. Laws focus on the safety of alert drivers, passangers, and pedestrains. How do you expect the cars to do the same?
Automakers are hoping that the asumption they have made on the problems for these cars would be worked out. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have the driverless car by 2020. But will they have all the right features to make sure there car in safe. Or for the fact of can the car operate it self as if a human was driving? Will these cars be able to withstand the dangers of the road or traffic jams. Are these cars going to have the alerts the roads? The biggest question of them all how would these cars know how to get to where the person is going without the help of the driver? None of these things was answerd of explained in the passage. But for the idea of a driverless car I personally dont agree with it.
In the following passages above I explain my thoughts on the creation of a diverless car. Leaves breif details on how I feel about it with supporting facts from the article. With all this being said I think my point is very clear on how i feel about the matter at hand.
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Do you think they should bring driverless cars?I think they should bring these driverless cars but I also think they should'nt.If you want my opinion I think they should because they have had their driverless cars drive half a million miles without crashing,but I also think they shouldn't because these cars can only handle driving functions up to up to 25 mph, and also a human could get bored waiting on their turn to drive.
First of all, I think they should bring these driverless cars because it keeps safety on the road like in the second paragraph it states,"Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." So that could be a good opinion to bring the driverless cars.
Second of all, however I think bringing the driverless could be a bad idea because these cars can only handle drivg functions up to 25 mph.Which i'm sure alot of people would want to not go that slow.
Lastly, my last opinion on not bringing these driverless cars is that i'm sure humans could get bored on waiting on the monitor to tell them when to take the wheel.
With all that said I do not think they should bring the driverless cars because,a human could get bored waiting on his/her turn to drive,the cars can only handle funtions up to 25 mph but I also think they should bring the driverless car because it bring safety to the streets.
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I feel like driverless cars are an okay idea because in the artical it says that Google has had these types of cars since 2009 and they have been driven half a million miles without a crash, even though they are not actually 100 percent driverless. A lot of manufacturers believe that it was not so much the car that needed to be "smarter" but the roads.
The cars would have to use a whole lot of sensors to be able to be self driving, and it would cost alot of money to get new roads and everything that is needed for the cars. In cars today we have alot of sensors because they help with an abundance of things such as antilock brakes, automatic windows and many more. in the artical it says that BMW in 2013 announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant". That means that the car could handle driving and functioning at speeds up to 25 miles per hour, as long as the driver had their hands on the wheel. Although the cars can steer, accelerate and break on their own the drivers are still notified when the road ahead requires human assistance.
Many people can argue and say "wont drivers get bored of waiting for their turn to drive?" Although that is a concern the cars arent going to always be self driving, that can be changed with the push of a button or the flip of a switch. the driver can choose when he or she wants to drive and when they want the car to drive its self. In many states it has been lawed that the use or attempt to make such cars is illegal, but many manufacturers believe that whith in the next few years those laws will be changed, but if those are changed then new laws are going to have to be put in place. Those laws can help a company because the laws would either state that it was the drivers fault if they got hurt in the self driving car or if it was the manufacturers fault for making said car.
Either way i believe that the making and use of driverless cars is a pretty good idea because now and days we live in a world where we have to be caught up with the latest and greatest things or we fall behind. The world of technology is evolving and so is human kind, so i believe that driverless cars will be a good addition to this ever changing world of technology.
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The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," by Nich D'Alto describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. I do think that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of sudents in a classroom is valuable.
It explains in the text the software can tell you how happy, sad, angry, etc.. the person is. In paragraph one it states,"She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This explains that this software can tell exactly how you are feeling. The program will first take a 3D model of your face and then examine the movements of each muscle in your face. The computer needs to examine the muscles in your face because the muslces of a real smile and a fake smile move differently. Dr. Huang states,"The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." This means that when everyone is actually smiling and not faking it their muscles move the same way. This also means when a person is sad their muscles will move the same exact way of everyone else who is truly sad. I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very valueable, becuase if that person is sad or depressed then we will know and we can help them get through whatever they are going through. Dr. Huang states, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." This means that humans do not show thier emotions all the time, and computers have to understand that too. This means that humans can hide their emotions and when someone is smiling that does not always mean that they are nessasaraly happy, and when someone looks sad that does not mean that they are always sad. The computers have to understand more than the visual picture. The computer has to understand the muslce part of the face to examine if they are truly happy, sad, angry, etc.. An example of how this technology could benifit us in tremendous ways is if a student is in the classroom and they are very angry, we can talk to them or get them help so they will not hurt anyone or do something not appropriate. Another example on how the Facial Action Coding System could help schools out and benefit us is if someone is super depressed and they are planning on hurting themselves or hurting others around them then we will be able to notice that and try to find help. It will be safer for not just that person but everyone.
Reading this text and really thinking about everything and all the facts, I am for using this technology to read students' emotional expresssions. I do not think the Facial Action Coding System could hurt any school, I think it would benifit schools is various ways.
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" doesn't support the idea of studying Venus well as it lacks with detail, and they don't go in depth with the pros of exploring this inhabitated plant and how it would benifit us in doing so.
In the article we are introduced to Venus and given a glimpse of our background history with them. The author also includes infromation of the planet's atmosphere and how it's a challenging factor for us when attempting to reach its suface, the huge difference that seperates us from them. When given information of past travels, we are informed that "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades," (TCEV). With this alone there is already doubt engendered in the reader's mind because of how long it has been since we last attempted to reach such grounds and how even then spacecrafts weren't durable when they did make it. "Each previous mission was unmanned" due to the circumstances they were met with yet when further reading is made we are told that NASA wants to send humans to Venus. This only adds to the concerns of the reader in manifesting alien-like areas.
Then we are explained of possible ways NASA is already planning to approach Venus and how they are already working, or at least contemplaiting, ways to last longer in Earth's 'Twin Sister'. We are given a jot down of how things are being tested and what it is they are trying to overcome in order to create something durable that will hold longer than a few hours. The only reason we are given for this is that "Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system," (TCEV). The author doesn't even clarify how this is impactful to our society today. What is there to gain from a planet that "may well once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system?" In that sentence alone there is still some uneasiness since it's not sure or confirmed that Venus was once like Earth.
Therefore, this is why the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" doesn't support the idea of studying Venus very clearly. The lack of pros and benifits to our planet adding to the pot of cons and uncertainty that was instead made from reading this article. Surely they did a splendid job in guiding us through possible ways that'll help in exploring the harsh environments and listing final encounters we have had before, but no information was straightforward when it came as to why we should invest time in going to Venus when such dangerous challenges are in front of us.
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In this passage the author talks about one of our plantes in the solar system named Venus. The author talks about earth like Venus is and reason why they cant go and reason why they can go and give differnt examples on how we could get that done. The author also talks about the natural stuff like valcanoes and earthquakes, and the conditions of Venus.
In paragraph one the author give us some little facts about Venus such has how we can see Venus from Earth itself and another name for Venus that many people may have never heard of"Evening Star".
In paragraph two the author talks about Venus is Earth's "twin" and missions to get to Venus. A spacecraft hasnt landed on Venus in 3 decades due to the harsh conditions. That is no excuse. The mission to land on Venus is a challenge at hand but it can be survived by humans. There were differnt ways they could approach Venus. The 1st way is to basically hotair ballon on Venus and the 2nd way is to just land. Its very challenging but can be done.
In paragraph 3 they talk about how Venus is earthlike. Some examples are that Venus has oceans, valcanoes, lighting strikes, earthquaks and much more.
In the next serval paragraphs the author talks about how and why they could get to Venus. SO they would use a spaceship to get there but would hotair ballon on the planet itself to stau away from everything. The only problem is there isnt technolgy good enough to render photos that are taken from the ground below. There fore if they really want smaples and all that thye have to get on the ground. Its survivable but the conditions are harsh and challenging.
The author then wraps up the story talking about how we strive to meet these challenges and where it can lead us. I feel like we should amd should be able to study Venus from a close range. I think the dangers can be overcomed with lots of training and simulations that are inspried by Venus's harsh condistions. I also belive that we can survie venus with good technology. I know we have it we just done want to release it into the world which makes sense but at the same time we could have billions of people living on 2 differnt planets. Our technology is not quite there yet though, but we're getting somewhere.
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I think that people should join the Seagoing Cowboy program because you can take care of horses, young cows, and mules that wereshipped overseas.
My first reason is that in August 1945, the recieved their orders to report the New Orleans. They arrived August 14, the day the Pacificcwar ended. They got their seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, headed for greece-with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them.
My second reason is that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy. It tooko about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China.
My final reason is that I would go because I love horses and mules. Horses are so cozy and fluffy to me. Mules are entertaining to me as well as Horses too. They are to adorable and huge.
That's why I would want to go. I would want to touch Horses and Mules.
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we shouldn't use this techlogy to our students because we shouldn't know what your feelings our because thats our priviacy. the only people who should be able to use this technology is our consoulers, and our doctors. This will show them what we are feeling and they could find ways to help us.
The reason why we should use this is that it will help us cut down all the sucides and will help us make a lot more people happy. We would be ableto get helped in different ways then we do already now. this is a new piece of technolgy that could help our world in a big way but the only way we should only be able to use this is if the parents of the or the child if eighteen sign the waiver to tell us we can use it on them. This is a new thing that could help us in school and with everyone who needs help.
The reason why we need this is to help us get more with people trying to endanger them and to make sure everyone can feel better. We can always get help and do everything we can to make sure we have our students to know if we are cinfused or bored on what they are learning. This will help our world out big time and help every student to get better in school.
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Dear Senator,
Change. Think back to when you were a child and how much you have changed since then. You are now a grown man, you are the senator of Florida. Change. Think of your wife your kids have they changed? Change. From time to time everyone, and everything needs some change. Changing the Electoral Vote to a popular vote would be one of these "for the better" changes. This is because of a few things.
"Each candidate running for President in the state has his or her own group of electors." (Office of the Federal Register 5) This means that these candidates all have electors on their side when they walk in. But by changing the electoral vote to a popular vote shows how committed, selfless, and enthusiastic the candidates are about their jobs. Having the popular vote replace the electoral vote gives more authority and input from the people of the United States.
Richard Nicon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole all agreed on abolishing the electoral vote because "...voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president."(Office of the Federal Register 10) This happened again recently during the presidential election between Clinton and Obama. Clinton won the popularity vote and Obama won the electoral vote. This means that more people voted for Bill Clinton but the electoral college decided to vote for Obama instead.
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Driverless cars are very interesting to disscuss. They can be so helpful, but there are downsides to them. Thoughts about whether they are great or horrible will vary from person to person. Some people might think both. I would be one of those people that think both are true. There are many arguments both ways. All of them seem logical. All is understandable to think what everyone is thinking about them.
One reason that they are great would be that it means the driver would be able to do other tasks instead of drive. The person in the car could do their own thing rather than focus on all that comes with driving a car which can be a lot to focus on at one time. One major reason that it could be a bad thing is that anything thats made can malfunction, which could cause many things to happen. If it did malfunction people could get hurt or possibly die. Then the question comes down to who would be responsible if something like this were to happen. The driver owns the car yet wasn't actually driving so would the manufacturer be responsible? The manufacturer can't be held accountable because things that are made break and mess up constantly. The driver also can't be responsible, because they were not driving and they have no control over if the car does something it's not supposed to do.
Both sides of the argument make total sense. They can be so helpful, but they have a possiblity of causing harm to innocent people. Once they figure out who would be responsible if something bad were to ever happen or they can promise nothing will ever happen, which they can't, everything would be so much easier. Driverless cars could potentially be a great idea. It just depends on how you look at things like this.
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using the techonology of emotionalnally expressions of students in a classrom is valuable because it identfies mona lisa's emotions how one picture can describe her self as calculating emotions. constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human mules. movent one of one or more musles. movent of one or more musles is called an action untit in fact we humans preform this same impressive caluculation every day for instance you can prolly tell a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face of corce most of us would have trouble actully describing each facial trait that conveys happy wooried etc ..... i oberserved that artist such as da vicci studies human anatomy to help them paint facial musles precilely enough to convey specific emotions his new compuer sofftware stores simlar anatomical imformation as electronical code. the mona lisa demostrating is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. imagine a computer that knows when your happy or sad . by the way, did making a happy face in this experiment also mmake you feel slightly happy ? accoring to the facial feed back therory of emotion moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them. whoever thought that amking faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions!
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Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if we had driverless cars? Would it be endless difficulties? Or would we be more advanced and have easier access to places we want to go? With today's tech we still don't have the resources to create completely safe cars, even though some cars like these have already been made.
In the article they talk about a special track cars need in order to be driverless. It's one of the only things that actually worked but the cost of all these new roads is huge and it's just not something that will work, Anything like this will probably cost just as much money so cars are better off staying like they are for now,
There are laws in place that state an awake driver should always be in the car, which would make the driverless cars pointless, These laws are in place because cars that drive themselves aren't safe. Anything can go wrong technologically and there's not much someone could do in that situation because the car wouldn't be made for a humans control, You may say that something like that could happen with a normal car, but the reprocusions of a car that can be controlled by a human are less severe.
Humans may not need to buy these cars but the cost to ride in one would most likely be a crazy cost. In parapgraph 5 the author says a car would need lots of sensors in order to detect traffic conditions and stop a car from skidding and rolling over. If something like these sensors would be able to detect all these things and make the car experience so safe the cost would be crazy. One car needing that many sensors is expensive so imagine thousands to millions of cars like that, and imagine how much they would cost.
Driverless cars aren't needed. There are too many cons and not enough pros to the road of driverless cars. To be completely safe and to make sure everyone has the wage to buy a car cars shouldn't advance so quickly.
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