Information Literacy

Ashley Rossiter

1. Use the Internet to find a Technology current event article.

I chose an article on self driving cars from zdnet.com. Why we wont trust robot cars
until they drive more like us by Danny Palmer posted on February 3, 2016.
2. Danny Palmer discusses how the UK is funding eight separate research projects that will
focus on making autonomous cars drive in a more realistic way. The research will hopefully
lead to these autonomous cars driving and reacting to traffic and other situations such as
allowing emergency vehicles to pass more naturally like human drivers, rather than
robots. Companies such as Jaguar and Land Rover want their customers to feel safe in
these driverless cars, to put their trust in the car. According to Dr. Wolfgang Epple the
director of research and technology at Jaguar Land Rover motorists using the road at the
same time as a driverless car will be more likely to trust it if it acts like a human. Only
time will tell what these research projects will bring forth in the world of autonomous
vehicles.
3.
Search Engine
Key Words
Article Title
Date of Article
Article Site
Author of Article

Google
Self driving cars, news
Self driving cars are
coming soon to a highway
near you
February 12, 2016
Yahoo Tech!
Daniel Howley

Yahoo
Self driving cars, news
Googles new self driving
car has no steering wheel or
brake
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
CNN
Brandon Griggs

Both Google and Yahoo both had plenty of articles on Self-driving cars. What helped me
decide on the two articles I picked was the simple fact that the titles appealed to me. I found it
interesting that when I did a Google search on self-driving cars the article Self driving cars are
coming soon to a highway near you was from Yahoo Tech, and yet when I did the Yahoo
search I did not find this article. The same can be said about my Yahoo search, the article
Googles new self driving car has no steering wheel or brake was not one that I found through
my Google search. Usually I would use Google automatically and would not venture onto
another search engine unless I absolutely could not find the information I was looking for.
However, having to use another search engine in this assignment gave me a new perspective on
the subject. I found that Yahoo had more articles from reputable sources to choose from so far
as my topic was concerned. Although, both search engines did have a range of articles about
self-driving cars from the technology, the concerns people have, and the research behind them
and all articles were from various dates that range from several years ago to earlier today.

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4.
Search Engine
Article Title

Yahoo
Googles new self driving car has no steering
wheel or brake
Cnn.com / Brandon Griggs / World news
Coming from cnn.com this article is very
reliable. The research and figures are up to
date (when posted). Uses experts to sign off on
the topic as well as surveys. Although there
was one source that is identified as an older
man identified only as Nick. which is not
reputable.
To inform. As cnn.com is a news site it is not
trying to sell you something but instead
informing you on issues that are concerning
our world. In this case it is informing potential
consumers about self-driving cars as a product.
A news source / cnn.com
This article was updated on Wednesday, May
28, 2014, so it is not the most up to date
information on self-driving cars. However, for
the purpose of this assignment it is recent
enough to still be relevant. The links are still
working, leading you to other articles from
April and May of 2014.

Who?
What?

Why?

Where?
When?

5.
Keywords
Database
Scholarly Journal Title

Limiters

Self-driving cars
CCBC SmartSearch:
Academic OneFile
In-vehicle technology for selfdriving cars: Advantages and
challenges for aging drivers
Year: 2016, Scholarly (peer
reviewed) journals

Self-driving cars
CCBC SmartSearch:
Business Source Premier
Self-Driving Technology and
Autonomous Vehicles: A
Whole New World for
Potential Product Liability
Discussion.
Year: 2016, Scholarly (peer
reviewed) journals

I chose CCBC SmartSearch to find my scholarly journals partly because it was recommended
to us. Also, the other reason I decided to use SmartSearch is I didnt want to make this
assignment harder than I had to, I wanted to attempt to find my journals this way before having
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to branch off into a different database. Had I been unable to find scholarly journals on selfdriving cars through SmartSearch, using limiters to narrow down my search results, I wouldve
tried elsewhere but I didnt have to. Of course the SmartSearch picks journals from other
databases so I really pulled from Academic OneFile and Business Source Premier.
6.
Internet Article
Self driving cars are coming soon to a
highway near you

Scholarly Journal
Self-Driving Technology and Autonomous
Vehicles: A Whole New World for Potential
Product Liability Discussion.
Published: July 2015
Author: Roy Allan Cohen
Found via CCBC Smart Search
Keywords: Self driving cars

Published: February 12,2016

Author: Daniel Howley
Found via Google Search
Keywords: Self driving cars, news

Both the Internet article and the scholarly journal were easy enough to find. A simple keyword
search in a Google search and I was able to find plenty of articles, all I had to do was decide
which one to use. As for the scholarly journal I did a similar keyword search and then used
some limiters to narrow down the original 12,000 results to 12 results. The limiters I used
helped me focus on scholarly (peer reviewed) journals closer to 2016. Attempting to limit my
results does not mean that I was able to find a journal from this year, as you can see in the chart
above the most recent journal I found was from July 2005. However, the Internet article I found
was from last week and is in fact a newer article than the one I found on ZDnet.com to use as
my original article. If you are looking for more up to date information I would definitely
recommend using a search engine to find a reputable source before attempting to find a
scholarly journal if you want the most recent date possible. While going a basic Internet search I
found articles that were posted a few hours prior to my search time. The odds of finding a
scholarly journal that was penned and published a few hours prior to your search is near
impossible, you may however find one that was posted to the database within a day of your
search if youre lucky.

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References
Cohen, R. A. (2015). Self-Driving Technology and Autonomous Vehicles: A Whole New
World for Potential Product Liability Discussion. Defense Counsel Journal, 82(3), 328-334.
Griggs, B. (2014, May 28). Googles new self driving car has no steering wheel or brake.
Retrieved February 20, 2016, from
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/tech/innovation/google-self-driving-car/index.html
Howley, D. (2016, February 13). Self-Driving Cars Are Coming Soon to a Highway Near You.
Retrieved February 20, 2016, from https://www.yahoo.com/tech/self-driving-cars-arecoming-soon-to-a-highway-221223190.html
Palmer, D. (2016, February 3). Why we won't trust robot cars until they drive just like us
ZDNet. Retrieved February 18, 2016, from http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-we-wonttrust-robot-cars-until-they-drive-just-like-us/
Yang, J., & Coughlin, J. F. (2014). In-vehicle technology for self-driving cars: Advantages and
challenges for aging drivers. International Journal Of Automotive Technology, (2), 333.
doi:10.1007/s12239-014-0034-6