Division of Undergraduate Education • University of California Irvine

Uni Stu 3 Hyperloops, Bullet Trains, and Self-driving Cars

Spring 2018 [Course Code: 87615]
Instructor: Professor MG McNally <mmcnally@uci.edu>
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Week 1 Seminar
  6-Apr-17 Seminar 1: Course Overview [ slides ];
Disney's Magic Highway (1958) [ Video ]
  Survey You will receive an email link to a course survey on your experiences with various means of transportation. please complete this by next Thursday (April 12th).
Week 2 Seminar
  12-Apr-18 Seminar 2: Overview of Public Transit [ slides ];
Death of the Red Car [ video ]
    Writing Response 1:
Review Beyond Traffic slides 12-16 from lecture 1 describing evolving trends that will impact transportation in the future. Pick one of these five areas and write an essay that summarizes these projected trends and gives yourperspective on how today's transportation systems may evolve in response to these trends (about 1000 words due: 26 Apr 2018).
Week 7 Seminar
  17-May-18 Seminar 7 HSR and AV Futures
Self-driving cars: The Future of Driverless Cars;
Driverless Trucks: The Future of Driverless Trucking
Connected Cars: [1] Information; [2] Control (V2V and V2I)
  HW 2 HSR: Facts and Alternative Facts [Writing Response 2 (due 24 May 2018)]
Week 7 Seminar
  24-May-18 Seminar 8: A presentation by UCI's HyperXite team [YouTube Video]
Week 10 Seminar
  7-Jun-18 Seminar 10: Writing Response 3
As discussed in class on Thursday, the last assignment is 1000 words on "a day in your life" 20 years into the future. Choose a few hours, or the whole day, and describe the transportation and other technologies that will be (a) out-dated, (b) part of daily life, or (c) just emerging as a potential disruptive innovation, and how you interact with them. Submit via email (pdf or doc) no later than Monday, June 18th.
Finals No Final Exam
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