Question

What is your relationship and understanding on autonomous vehicles vs it's overall ethics. Do you agree, disagree or have an unbiased opinion on this new technology?

Answer 1

Our roadways are coming from automated cars (AVs). They are starting to pose problems and issues not yet experienced or even witnessed by many of the public. The current research examines how the capacity and effects of increasing levels of ground automation can be transmitted and understood by the general public. All three levels—public communication, human–machine interaction, and technical feasibility—coact to sculpt the coming forms of transportation. The resulting system promises to be strikingly different from its traditional and contemporary form, which has come to be accepted as the status quo for almost a century.

The driverless car's advent is generally depicted as both saving labor and decreasing accidents. The societal effect of these mobile robots, however, will definitely be larger than a straightforward shift in the trip between the instant source and the destination. For instance, it may not be essential for people to own a vehicle in the coming years, particularly if they can use a easy portal such as a smartphone application to summon one from a circulating fleet and are fully confident that it will arrive within minutes or even seconds. This ocean shift will have many knock-on impacts in the use of vehicles.These technological changes may then foreshadow a repurposing of parking structures or parking spaces within buildings to accommodate new housing, offices, or retail uses. Of course, parking concerns are not by any means the only dimension of change.

The radical changes promised by AVs will have profound and extended effects on the general public. Some of these are changes we can readily anticipate; others are much less predictable. Fully autonomous vehicles are designed to drive themselves. These differing forms of advancing vehicles have been categorized in a hierarchy which compares driver control versus vehicle control. The hierarchy is described in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) levels of control

Some of the most obvious proximal effects will be on employment and related traffic patterns. The driverless vehicle has the potential to make it as redundant as the horse for the horseless carriage has become. Truck riders and cab drivers may need to discover fresh types of jobs, some may be overseeing these individual cars from distant call centers. However, employment in the new transport industry may well decline, as they have changed radically in other industries through automation and now emerging independence of machines

Driverless cars can provide mobility to those who cannot physically drive, such as children, the disabled, or the frail elderly. However, for such populations the problems of ingress into and egress from the vehicle remain, emphasizing that mobility is more than just the car journey alone. Fuller, augmented mobility is a social amenity that can prevent the loneliness, depression, and failing quality of life that attend isolation and immobility. Perhaps such AVs will lure passengers off buses, deleteriously impacting the economics of bus operations in urban areas. These represent only a limited set of the foreseeable changes; more widespread and radical change is promised.