In class we talked about the Tesla self driving mode. Because of a previous accident the Tesla corporation made it so that every 10 minutes you have to touch the steering wheel in order to continue self driving. I think that although this was smart to make a timer to keep the drivers alert i think it does not makes sense to make the process of self driving more complicated when they should work on making the technology safer. I think they should have made sure that accidents like those don’t  happen again instead of avoiding the problem by putting the responsibility on the people.

After creating my mechanical switch I learned a lot about gears and how they work and how to work with wood. After picking out our pieces of wood that we wanted we got to use oil bases paint markers. This gave us a very creative angle and allowed us to make the switch whatever theme we wanted. After that we assembles by glueing all of the pieces together with wood glue and made our switches.