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Self-driving cars : Assignment Sample

   

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Table of Contents1.0 Methodologies......................................................................................................................................11.1. Survey...............................................................................................................................................21.1.1 Exploratory research technique survey.....................................................................................21.1.2 Descriptive research technique survey......................................................................................21.1.3 Casual research technique survey.............................................................................................31.1.4 Face to face survey.....................................................................................................................31.1.5 Interview survey........................................................................................................................41.2 Software development methodologies............................................................................................61.2.1 Waterfall model.........................................................................................................................61.2.2 Agile software development.....................................................................................................61.3 Chosen methods...............................................................................................................................71.3.1 Quantitative data.......................................................................................................................71.3.2 Qualitative data.........................................................................................................................81.4 Data analysis.....................................................................................................................................91.4.1 Quantitative data analysis techniques......................................................................................91.4.2 Qualitative data analysis techniques.......................................................................................10References................................................................................................................................................11ii

1.0 MethodologiesAll the players in the self-driving cars are important due to the roles and input they give to the development of self-driving cars (Howard and Dai, 2014). Right from the traditional players whocame up with the innovative ideas of automating cars to the disruptive players who ensured that the ideas are upheld and help in developing the ideas have equal importance in pushing the idea of automating and coming up with self-driving cars (König and Neumayr, 2017). Most of the manufacturing industries such as Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Ford Motors and many others areadopting the idea and putting it to use as a result of bringing the safety measures through introducing Driver-assist Systems (ADAS) (Bengler, Dietmayer, Farber, Maurer, Stiller and Winner, 2014). Various features are being added to the cars by their manufacturers to make themautonomous and thus reducing cases of road carnage when brought to use. Toyota became the first car manufacturing company to introduce automatic parking assistance that help in easily andsafely control the car while parking (Auer, Volkswagen Ag, 2015). Parking process can be controlled by individuals through the use of remote control. The feature have gained credit since it makes process easier particularly in the congested parking areas which help in protecting the cars from damages that would have resulted from the parking process should physical drivers be used (Lee, Deng, Kade, and Chin, 2013). Adaptive cruise technology is also among other technologies that have been improvised in the automation of cars towards making them self-drivers (Fagnant and Kockelman, 2015). This helps the cars with keeping safe distance between cars thus avoiding collision of cars that was quite rampant in the ancient years. Companies such as BMW, Audi, Toyota, etc. have adopted that technology which also help them widen their markets due to improved features (Zhang, Gao, Guo, Li, Liu and Li, 2016). In response to the reviews from the literature, this study aims at investigating the effects of introduction of self-driving cars as a road safety control measure. Consequently, the study will beanswering the question “What are the effects of introducing self-driving cars as a road safety measure?” in response to the research question raised for investigation, various methodologies will be discussed that will help in the collection of data that will be analyzed in regards to fulfilling the proposed research objective. A number of methodologies that will be discussed in this study that could possibly be employed by the researcher in the collection of data are survey are; design and creation, desk research, focus groups, observations etc. Thereafter, the 1

researcher will choose with critical evaluation of the research techniques the one that will be the most suitable in the collection of data in relation to the questions raised in this study.1.1. SurveyThis is one of the mostly used research technique by the researchers for collecting quantitative data. In the process, the researcher selects the number of respondents that he or she wishes to engage in the study. The sample is usually selected from the population i.e. the set of elements ofinterest under investigation (Lewis, 2015; Maxwell, 2012). Surveys exist in three different types which includes exploratory research technique, descriptive research technique and casual research technique (Modi, Patel, Borisaniya, Patel, Patel and Rajarajan, 2013; Fowler, 2013).1.1.1 Exploratory research technique surveyThis forms the most important part business strategy in marketing. It is mostly aimed at discovering new ideas and insights which is not in line with the statistically accurate data and widely employed at the beginning of the research plan (Pasick, Stewart, Bird and D'onofrio, 2016; Sekaran and Bougie, 2016). In business sector, it is used providing the definition of issues concerning the company and identifying the areas for the potential growth when the alternative course of action is taken. In that overview, this approach will help in prioritizing the possible areas that would require statistical research (Neuman, 2016). The process can either be conducted physically through the use of questionnaires or electronically. For instance, for the case where the survey is to be conducted online, this technique is applied with an open ended questions. In the process, rich information is collected by the researcher that will help in exploring new ideas as provided by the participants in their responses. It mainly collects qualitative data.1.1.2 Descriptive research technique surveyIt is majorly applied in the online surveys taking a large number of online surveying that could possibly be considered conclusive as a result of its quantitative nature (Bhattacherjee, 2012). As opposed to exploratory techniques which is not concerned with the statistically accurate data, thistechnique operates under a preplanned and structured design so that the collected information can be statistical and be used to draw inferential tests on a population under study (Baltar, and Brunet, 2012). 2

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