Chris Gerdes presented on his research developing an autonomous race car capable of driving at 150mph without a driver. He discussed testing the car to prove it can avoid accidents autonomously. Gerdes also studied drivers' brainwaves in racing situations. He kept the audience engaged with videos of the car and brainwave testing. The presentation demonstrated how visual aids can effectively convey information and maintain audience interest.

1. TED Talk Evaluation Presentation
Chris Gerdes

2. Dr. Chris Gerdes , the Director of the Center for
Automotive Research at Stanford (conveniently
acronymed CARS), and his team are developing a
robotic race car, capable of driving at outrageous
speeds while avoiding every possible accident.

3. Chris Gerdes: The future race car -- 150mph,
Chris Gerdes:
and no driver
The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver,
In this video Chris explains his idea of the future race
car and how his testing is trying to prove that a robotic
car can be safer and avoid accidents.

4. Chris also includes a secondary study on the human
brainwave actions while driving in a race car. He compares
how brainwaves react in certain situations while in the car.

5. Getting the audiences attention:
The presenter engaged the audience right from the
beginning by asking a simple interactive question:
How many of you have gotten into a car and really
should not have been driving? This simple question
can relate to a lot of people and get their attention
from the beginning.

6. Keeping the audience engaged:
The speaker keeps the audience engaged by using visual aids
such as pictures and videos of the autonomous car and
videos of the drivers using the brainwave testing technology.

7. Dynamism 4/5
I would rate Chris’ dynamism a 4/5 because of the short
length of the presentation. Other than this minor point I
thought the presenter was passionate about his work
and was very professional and was very good at keeping
the audience engaged with visual aids and use of humor.

8. Chris’ video presentations were very clear and helped explain to the audience his
studies on brainwave activity and the usefulness of an autonomous car. The
speaker was extremely informative about his topic of discussion.

9. A lot presentation tips from Garr Reynolds were used in his presentation
such as:
Show your passion
Start strong
Keep it short
Move away from the podium
Use a remote control device

10. What have I learned?
This speaker has taught me
that visual aids can be very
important when it comes to
keeping the audience
interested. It can also be very
useful to make a few jokes in
the speech to keep the
audience interested as well, as
long as it is kept professional
and tasteful.

11. COMPARE:
I thought that Ken
Robinson and Chris
Gerdes both used
humor to keep the
audience engaged in
their presentations
and both presented
with great
professionalism and
were very well
informed on their
topic of discussion.

12. The major difference
DIFFERENCES: that the two speaker
had was the use of
visual aids. Robinson
did not use any visua
aids and Gerdes used
a lot.

13. Gerdes is speaking more on a topic of future advances in science
while Robinson expresses the need for his topic to be achieved
at the present time.

14. The Do’s and Don'ts of Speaking:
For future speakers

15. Do’s
1. Do Use Visual Aids
2. Do Use the entire stage
3. Do Use humor to keep the audience involved
4. Do Keep the audience involved with questions and
interactions
5. Be well informed about your topic

16. Don’ts
1. Don’t just stand in one place
2. Don’t mumble, you will lose the audience
3. Don’t lose eye contact