2A — Monday, January 22, 2018
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Reading in a moving car can 

be an issue for a lot of passengers 
who suffer from motion sickness, 
but 
University 
of 
Michigan 

researchers announced Friday 
they may have a solution. Not 
only are the researchers looking 

for innovations to help with 
motion sickness itself, but they 
are looking at how these systems 
can be useful in self-driving cars.

According to the Michigan 

Medicine, motion sickness occurs 
when the body sends conflicting 
signals to the brain, which often 
happens when a passenger is not 
watching the road when inside 
a moving vehicle. Researchers 
predict that more adults will 

experience motion sickness in 
self-driving cars.

In 2015, researchers from 

the 
University 
of 
Michigan 

Transportation 
Research 

Institute asked approximately 
3,200 adults from six countries 
what activities they would do in a 
self-driving car. The study found 
a third of Americans would 
partake in behavior –– reading, 
watching TV, working –– that 

would increase the possibility of 
motion sickness.

In a 2016 UMTRI report, 

researchers asserted potential 
gains in productivity that self-
driving cars encourage could be 
hindered by increased cases of 
motion sickness. 

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Rackham students organize 
conference, “The Other America”

A multi-panel event, titled 

“The 
Other 
America: 
Still 

Separate. Still Unequal.,” was held 
Friday at the Michigan Union 
to highlight continuing racial 
injustices from economic, social 
and political standpoints, while 
commemorating Martin Luther 

King Jr.’s legacy. The conference 
presented three panels throughout 
the day on discrimination African 
Americans face in today’s society.

The conference was organized 

by Rackham students Hakeem 

J. 
Jefferson 
and 
Steven 

Moore. Each panel examined 
a different realm of racial 
injustice 
and 
inequality, 

ranging 
from 
mass 

incarceration 
and 
police 

violence to socioeconomic and 
educational inequalities. This 
event followed Martin Luther 
King Jr. Day celebrations on 
Jan. 15, and gave the audience a 
deeper insight into the realities 
African American life in the 
U.S in a way that indicated 
much of the fight against 
racism is far from over.

The conference’s first panel, 

“Criminal Justice and State 
Violence against Blacks in the 
United States,” was held in the 
morning and featured three 
panelists from distinguished 
universities and backgrounds. 
The 
discussion, 
moderated 

by Political Science professor 
Christian Davenport, focused 
on the history of the African-
American 
struggle 
within 

the United States, as well as 
the continued discrimination 
faced by African Americans 
today.

Megan 
Ming 
Francis, 

associate professor of Political 
Science at the University of 
Washington, spoke to the audience 
on “The Strange Fruit of American 
Politics,” which included allusions 
to both past and current racial 
issues, such as the August incidents 
in Charlottesville. Additionally, 
Francis stressed top universities 
don’t typically host events with 
such 
directness 
surrounding 

racial injustice, emphasizing the 
importance of the conference.

“These types of conferences 

don’t happen at institutions,” 
Francis said. “In so many ways, 
I think this conference is history 
making.”

The 
panel 
also 
featured 

Frank Baumgartner, professor of 
Political Science at the University 
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 
Baumgartner touched on issues 
of criminal justice and the gap 
between 
Blacks 
and 
whites 

being questioned or searched at 
a traffic stop. In his presentation, 
Baumgartner cited the greater 
likelihood of being searched as 
an African American and the 
consequences of racial profiling on 
the roads. Baumgartner also noted 
age and gender, in addition to race, 
play a role in the probability of 
being pulled over.

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