User:Zetaroid
Zetaroid - Marcus's Internet Alias
Interests:
- running
- games (ie. Magic the Gathering, Smash Bros, Xbox, PC)
- ENGINEERING WOO
- saxophone (didn't bring it with me :'( maybe next semester)
- other stuff...just ask
Grand Challenges for Engineering Article Selection:
5 Things Your Car Will Finally Do in 2020, John Brandon, CNN, last updated: March 12th 2008, accessed: August 27th 2015
This article has, so far, held true. It predicts the future of cars in 2020 based on 2008's technology and four of the five points made in the article frequently make headlines today as the technology involved advances. The only point we don't hear about much is the road itself giving off a wireless signal to control traffic, albeit there are many similar things to this in the news.
The relation of the article to the Grand Challenge is that Sebastian Thrun won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for his autonomous car named Stanley. Thrun went on to make a more advanced autonomous car for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challange. His ideas behind the vehicles, albeit at the time designed for military use, have since spread industry wide as many companies are working towards a perfected autonomous car.
