Videos and Testimony
Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan
http://www.google.com/about/careers/lifeatgoogle/self-driving-car-test-steve-mahan.html This video depicts a test-drive of the Google Driverless Car by a blind man named Steve Mahan.
Mahan utilizes the car to drive to multiple stores while speaking with his passenger and eating fast food. Not once does Mahan touch the steering wheel.
CNN Test-Drives Google's "Self-Driving Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpPPVvGqTY
CNN provides an overview and explanation of Google's Driverless Car and the technologies and processes involved.
Assortment of Videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoh2DvHj2l4dYyVGF16RYnQ
This link provides a variety of YouTube videos directed towards
Google's Driverless car.
Who Are We?
Hello! Our names are Adrian, Dedrick, and Sorab. We are students at Rutgers University, majoring in Information Technology.
This site serves as a project for our Social Informatics course, which is requiring us to examine an emerging technology based off of the 5 Principles of Social Informatics.
The technology that we are assessing is driverless cars: more specifically, Google's Driverless car.
We hope to demonstrate information regarding background and development, the need for the technology, the public's preconceived notions and expectations of the technology,
the social components of the technology, the technological components of the machine,
the possible paradoxical effects that may result from its application in society, and its its moral consequences.
Research Methods
In order to properly depict Google's Driverless car, we shall be providing information regarding
the basics of the machine that we have found from a list of scholarly journals (which are each
listed in the blibiography portion of the website). Furthermore, we shall be analyzing the videos and interviews provided
by Google in order to communicate frst-hand experiences and results from test drives. Lastly, because the goal of driverless
cars s to increase and promote safety, the technology will be investigated mostly by its ability to seemingly provide a safer means of transportation
without stimulating too many negative paradoxical effects.
Discussion Questions
1. Do these videos represent authentic experience with the technology?
2. Does the sparseness of videos and test drives make it impossible to declare that Google's technology and care are
actually safe?
3. Is Google's confidence regarding security measures and their capacity to defend against hacking seem
realistic? Are they putting future users at risk?
