- I think my research idea has changed a little bit since the beginning of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I was wanting to look into the effects that the shift to self-driving has had and will have; however, as of recently, my focus has shifted a bit to look instead at what effect its had, especially as a quantitative research topic. I am wanting to focus on this technology’s effect on society today, and how many people seem to support it.
- I want to be able to find out what society thinks about self-driving vehicles, and possibly look into what the approval rate for these vehicles are. One major question I have is: how many people support this new technology (self-driving vehicles)? I may even want to know, for the group that may not support it, what could be done to make it better? (This part may possibly be a bit of a qualitative study there).
- I have done some research and I have found a good bit of information on social willingness to use self-driving tech, and when they would use it. In fact, according to Lerman, “experts conducted a survey among 1,500 respondents in 10 countries around the world and found that half of the respondents were ready to entrust their lives and health to automatic control systems” (Lerman, 2020). It was also discovered that, when asked what drivers would use autopilot most for, 60% responded with the parking process, while 67% also unanimously voted for using it on long trips (Lerman). This is interesting research because it helps me see just how many people are willing to use it, and what for.
- The first site I chose to use is EBSCOHost, from the “Computer Source” Link on the fhsu site. This source is useful because, as I am looking at it, I am able to find a lot of great information on automated vehicles. This information will greatly help and guide me towards furthering my knowledge and getting the information I will need. Google Scholar will help me get a start on finding scholarly articles I need for my research, and it can help me find other databases too. Another database I can use is called “Springer Link”. This database contains information about many topics, but I can also narrow my search results down so I can focus on the topic I need to research. This is useful as it will also help me find all the information I need to know for my topic. Finally, ResearchGate is one other great database I can use to help me find publication pages in many topics, but especially the topic I need. I can use ResearchGate to ensure I back up information I get from other sources and to make sure all of what I find is accurate.
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- As was noted in this response, Google Scholar is good for finding other databases, and it is also great for finding scholarly articles. It will not be the first place I will look, but if I ever get stuck, I can use Google Scholar to try to find some good information.
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Lerman, E., Suhareva, S., & Teslova, S. (2020). IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 753). IOP Publishing.
Driverless technology is an interesting subject and gauging the support for it would tell us a lot about how quickly that change may occur. In a previous class, I ran across a site discussing the moral judgments that self-driving technology could have to make in regard to the priority of life, moralmachine.net. It’s great that you’ve found some research related to your ideas.
This will be quite interesting. Self-driving cars have always scared me, as they are often connected to the Internet or have some sort of network functions, which means that with enough time, effort, and ingenuity, they can be hacked. However, the convenience of them does sound nice. Not nice enough that I will ever think about getting one though.