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Look! No Hands! Would you use a self-driving car?

By Associated Engineering Press

Would you ride in a car if it had no driver other than the car itself? And would that make our roads any safer? As part of KGUN9’s continuing project “Operation Safe Roads” we looked at how college students are learning to program cars that will probably be in your future … University of Alabama student Landon Bentley remembers when it was an achievement just to program a car to stay in a straight line.  Sources: 104.1 KQTH (Tucson, Arizona)ABC 9 (Tucson, Arizona)

In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s College of Engineering has more than 5,200 students and more than 170 faculty. In recent years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater, Hollings, Portz, Boren, Mitchell and Truman scholars.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Posted on: August 12, 2018    /    Posted in:   Computer Science, In The News, Students