Annotated Source 7 - Harris, Mark. “Self-Driving Car Drove Me from California to New York, Claims PDF

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Harris, Mark. “Self-Driving Car Drove Me from California to New York, Claims Ex-Uber Engineer.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 18 Dec. 2018, www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/18/controversial-engineer-i-travelled-ov er-3000-miles-in-a-self-driving-car....

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Annotated Bibliography Harris, Mark. “Self-Driving Car Drove Me from California to New York, Claims Ex-Uber Engineer.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 18 Dec. 2018, www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/18/controversial-engineer-i-travelled-ov er-3000-miles-in-a-self-driving-car. The website is about a man named Anthony Levandowski, who created a self-driving car that had driven him from California to New York on autopilot mode without any accidents or problems occurring. The car Levandowski built was a modified Toyota Prius and took “only video cameras, computers, and basic digital maps to make the cross-country trip,” and he may be at the heart of a lawsuit by Uber and Waymo. The author, Mark Harris, claims that Levandowski may be telling the truth about his autopilot experience, but argues that he isn’t exactly trustworthy according to his past experiences. Waymo accused Levandowski of stealing secrets of autonomous vehicles in 2017 when he left his job at Google to create his own self-driving car business called Otto, which was also helped by Uber. I could understand how the author would find Levandowski untrustworthy because of his past with Uber and Waymo, this incident would also make me very wary and cautious of Levandowski. Mark Harris is a freelance science and technology writer who works at The Guardian, a British newspaper company in Seattle. Not only does he work for The Guardian, but he’s a writer for many different news and journal companies including IEEE Spectrum, Backchannel, MIT Technology Review. The Economist, and New Science. He was previously a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2014, and won the AAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for his story How A Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing in 2015. The story of Levandowski was “one of his [Mark Harris’] public records requests for Backchannel triggered

Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber''. I couldn’t find any educational background for Mark Harris because apparently, there’s a lot of authors or writers out there with that name. The Guardian is a very active company that has written about Covid-19, the Queen, and other exciting topics. Harris’ works include writing about science, technology, business, the environment and travel, and airships. Taking a look at my annotation, If we believe what the author argues, it’s likely not going to change anything but support my argument against autonomous cars. Harris argues that Levandowski isn’t trustworthy therefore, we probably shouldn’t trust that he’s telling the truth about his autopilot trip from California to New York. That is a long trip, and Levandowski didn’t mention any other short trips he’d taken with his modified autonomous car. I think this source supports my argument because the author and I can agree that Levandowski most likely wasn’t telling the truth. This source is credible because it contains valuable information that can help me support my argument against self-driving cars by using an example of someone experienced with self-driving cars themselves. The only problem with that is that we don’t know if we were telling the truth....