[JSRC 학생기자]Driverless Cars

Driverless Cars

Driverless cars seem like things from the future. However, that will no longer be the case with Google announcing the company’ s hopes of having fully autonomous cars on American roads by 2020. In the US, the much-needed infrastructure for driverless cars is being built and Google is well on its way to testing driverless cars. Google’s driverless cars has already driven more than one million miles, half of which has been on open streets, without causing a single crash. This draws stark contrast to South Korea’s implementation of the new driverless car technology. Despite South Korea being a regional powerhouse in car production with companies like Hyundai and Kia having a strong presence overseas, South Korea is way behind companies like Google and Tesla in autonomous technology due to major automobile companies (Kia and Hyundai) being reluctant to jump in the game. However, this may all change with 3-rd party companies getting involved. A driverless taxi program named Snuber has driven students in Seoul National University around the campus with absolutely no accidents. While Snuber is far from being implemented to the open roads anytime soon, autonomous cars look to dominate future automobile industries in both the US and South Korea. If major Korean car companies like Hyundai and Kia don’t jump on the paradigm shift, South Korea will forever lag behind in future automobile industry. Using Seoul National University’s success as cue, Kia and Hyundai must transition to autonomous car.

May 23rd is Beyonce day

Worldwide superstar, Beyonce has finished her concert successfully in Minneapolis, Minnesota despite the bad weather condition. This was part of her world tour visiting various states until September 10th in St Louis, MO. The performance of her concert was amazing and all seats were full. Most other tickets of world tour are sold out.
However, this visit to Minnesota turned out to be something more special than visits to any other states. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has publically announced May 23rd, the day of her concert, as Beyonce Day. He announced that Beyonce has lead a positive influence to women with her inspirational music and by making this day as Beyonce day, Minnesota will support her and her music. Governor Dayton made official proclamation and tweet about this as well.

Now we will have to see if other states also agree on this notion and support Beyonce like Minnesota did. Her next upcoming her concert is Jun 3rd in Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. Will they also make Jun 3rd as Beyonce day? We will have to wait and see.