1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Quick teaching topic: self-driving cars This presentation centers around videos of self-driving cars. I use it to illustrate the role of research and prototypes in product development, as an example of embedded computers -- the Internet of things -- and as an (unconventional) example of an expert system.

2. Trip to Taco Bell in an autonomous vehicle The long run?

3. The short run Ford – step by step improvement

4. No driver controls – people’s reactions

5. What the car “sees”

6. Can this work in any garage? Automated valet parking

7. Test drive videoTest drive video (1m 53s) Berlin Free University self-driving car

8. Audi, autonomous race car On a track On Pikes Peak

9. Audi, programming a race car An expert system

10. CBS News video from CES (4m 7s) Where we are and what we hope to gain

11. Self-study questions Find and summarize articles on these advantages of self-driving cars: Car sharing Improved safety Less paved area for roads and parking Energy savings

12. Resources LA Times article on Audi NY Times article on self-driving cars Fortune article on self-driving cars and more from Google NY Times article on MIT folding car (related) BBC article on self-driving cars in the UK