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Student Research Guide WQ24/ Electric and Self-driving Cars

Student Research Guide for Library 201/ Melina Shepard

Top 10 Resources

LAW JOURNAL: Brodsky, Jessica “Autonomous Vehicle Regulation: How an Uncertain Legal Landscape May Hit the Brakes On Self-Driving Cars” Berkeley Technology Law Journal Vol. 31, No. 2, Annual Review (2016) Academic Search Complete

This source is useful because it provided me history on autonomous vehicles. This journal described the creation of the very first autonomous vehicle. This source is solid because it was created at by students at the University of California at Berkley. 

STATISTIC GRAPH: Carlier, Mathilde “Percentage of alcohol-impaired drivers involved in fatal car crashes in the United States in 2019, by month” Statistica (Jan, 2022) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093739/share-of-alcohol-impaired-drivers-in-fatal-crashes-month-united-states/ 

This source is useful because it provides statistics on fatal accidents due to drinking and driving in 2019. 

NEWS WEBSITE: Hawkins, Andrews “Waymo has 7.1 million driverless miles — how does its driving compare to humans?” The Verge (Dec, 2023)  https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24006712/waymo-driverless-million-mile-safety-compare-human 

-This source was important to my research because it proved that Waymo's autonomous vehicles had less accidents per mile than human. This source is also fairly recent. 

ONLINE ARTICLE: Jun Wang, Li Zhang, Yanjun Huang, Jian Zhao, "Safety of Autonomous Vehicles", Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 2020, Article ID 8867757, 13 pages (2020) https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8867757 

-This source provided information on the technology of these cars such as sensors, cameras, radars and GPS. Two of these authors are from The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mississippi State University. The other two are from The Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo. 

NEWS ARTICLE: Lee, Timothy “Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?” ArsTechnica (2023) https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/are-self-driving-cars-already-safer-than-human-drivers/ 

-This source was useful because the author read through every crash report Waymo and Cruise filed in California. This provided information on what caused these accidents. 

PUBLIC HEALTH DOCUMENT: Massar M, Reza I, Rahman SM, Abdullah SMH, Jamal A, Al-Ismail FS. “Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Greenhouse Gas Emissions-Positive or Negative?” Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 23;18(11):5567. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115567. PMID: 34071052; PMCID: PMC8197118.

This source provided information on how autonomous vehicles decrease greenhouse gas emissions. This was useful because it can be a source used for persuading. 

JOURNAL: Nie, Lili; Wang, Huiqiang; Feng, Guangsheng; Sun, Jiayu; Lv, Hongwu; et al. “A deep reinforcement learning assisted task offloading and resource allocation approach towards self-driving object detection” Journal of Cloud Computing; Heidelberg Vol. 12, Iss. 1,  (Dec 2023): 131. DOI:10.1186/s13677-023-00503-w

-This source was useful because it explained how autonomous vehicles have some improvements that need to be taken care of. It showed 2 different detection results and explained why it needed work. 

E-BOOK: Othman, K. “Public acceptance and perception of autonomous vehicles: a comprehensive review.” AI Ethics 1, 355–387 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00041-8

-This source was very important because it provided the publics perception of these autonomous vehicles. The author was in The Civil Engineering Department, University of Toronto. 

ONLINE ARTICLE: Peng, Huei. “What Are These ‘levels’ of Autonomous Vehicles? (July 2019).” The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers, edited by The Conversation, 1st ed., The Conversation, 2024. Credo Reference, https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6NDU1MDM4OA==?aid=10291

- This source was useful because it provided examples of every level of autonomous vehicles. The author is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.  

PUBLIC HEALTH DOCUMENT: Pettigrew S, Fritschi L, Norman R. “The Potential Implications of Autonomous Vehicles in and around the Workplace.” Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Aug 30;15(9):1876. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15091876. PMID: 30200206; PMCID: PMC6164975.

-This source is useful because it provided information on how autonomous vehicles affect the work place. It explained how it closes job opportunities but at the same time opens job opportunities. 

Top 5-10 Recommended Keywords/Search Terms on the Topic

 

  1. "Autonomous Vehicles"  AND "Sensors"
  2. "Autonomous Vehicles" AND "Public Perception"
  3. "Autonomous Vehicles"
  4. "Safety" AND "Autonomous Vehicles" 
  5. "Levels of Autonomous Vehicles" 
  6. "History of Autonomous Vehicles"
  7. "Autonomous Vehicles" AND "Jobs" 

 

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