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Driverless Vehicle Developers

Author : Andrew Morkes

Publisher : Cool Careers in Science

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 30,96 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Automated vehicles

ISBN : 9781422242964

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By 2025, it's estimated that there will be 8 million driverless vehicles on the road. A career as a driverless vehicle developer is the perfect choice for those who like technology and enjoy a constantly changing and rewarding work environment. In this book, you'll learn about the types of driverless vehicles, the pros and cons of this technology, typical educational paths for developers, key skills for success in this career, methods of exploring careers in driverless vehicle development while in school, and much more. Driverless Vehicle Developer is just one of ten exciting titles in the Cool Careers in Science series. Readers will discover ten cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering careers, and dozens of subspecialties. You will also learn why these careers are some of the most exciting, best paying, and fastest growing occupations in the world.



Autonomous Vehicle Technology

Author : James M. Anderson

Publisher : Rand Corporation

Page : 215 pages

File Size : 26,29 MB

Release : 2014-01-10

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 0833084372

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The automotive industry appears close to substantial change engendered by “self-driving” technologies. This technology offers the possibility of significant benefits to social welfare—saving lives; reducing crashes, congestion, fuel consumption, and pollution; increasing mobility for the disabled; and ultimately improving land use. This report is intended as a guide for state and federal policymakers on the many issues that this technology raises.



Autonomous Driving

Author : Markus Maurer

Publisher : Springer

Page : 698 pages

File Size : 15,59 MB

Release : 2016-05-21

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3662488477

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This book takes a look at fully automated, autonomous vehicles and discusses many open questions: How can autonomous vehicles be integrated into the current transportation system with diverse users and human drivers? Where do automated vehicles fall under current legal frameworks? What risks are associated with automation and how will society respond to these risks? How will the marketplace react to automated vehicles and what changes may be necessary for companies? Experts from Germany and the United States define key societal, engineering, and mobility issues related to the automation of vehicles. They discuss the decisions programmers of automated vehicles must make to enable vehicles to perceive their environment, interact with other road users, and choose actions that may have ethical consequences. The authors further identify expectations and concerns that will form the basis for individual and societal acceptance of autonomous driving. While the safety benefits of such vehicles are tremendous, the authors demonstrate that these benefits will only be achieved if vehicles have an appropriate safety concept at the heart of their design. Realizing the potential of automated vehicles to reorganize traffic and transform mobility of people and goods requires similar care in the design of vehicles and networks. By covering all of these topics, the book aims to provide a current, comprehensive, and scientifically sound treatment of the emerging field of “autonomous driving".



Autonomous Vehicles and the Law

Author : Ayse Buke Hiziroglu

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 33,37 MB

Release : 2022-05-31

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3031015053

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Disciplines can no longer be isolated. Technology has rapidly evolved to the point that driverless vehicles have truly become a reality and are not something out of a futuristic exhibition from the 1950s. However, engineers and researchers working on the development of autonomous vehicles cannot ignore the policy implications and policymakers as well as attorneys cannot ignore the technology. We are at a point where cross-disciplinary collaboration is vital in order to produce a technology that will immensely benefit society. This is the goal of this book: to educate autonomous vehicle developers on legal theory at the most basic level. Both policymakers and lawyers may also find the book helpful in gaining a basic understanding of the technology the developers are working on.





Thinking Local about Self-driving Cars

Author : Jacob A. Brett

Publisher :

Page : 126 pages

File Size : 47,23 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Autonomous vehicles

ISBN :

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Once a feature from science-fiction movies and books, self-driving cars are now a reality on public roads throughout the United States. I argue that until extensive data and research on self-driving cars is made available to the public, a flexible, place-based framework should drive local development of autonomous vehicles. Through existing literature, I highlight how autonomous vehicles will create different benefits and costs in safety, energy use/emissions, employment, congestion, and the built environment. However, variation in spatial patterns will lead to different outcomes with self-driving cars across urban, suburban, and rural areas in the United States. I created a flexible local policy framework to analyze case studies in King County, Washington through demographic, geographic, and transportation data. These case studies are representative of urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the county. Furthermore, I conclude that spatial variability in each community will influence how policy and planning shape the path for autonomous vehicle development. Through analyzing the fundamental differences between demographics, geography, and transportation behaviors in each study area, I conclude that local policymakers and planners should account for spatial variability when crafting tools to manage autonomous vehicle development in each neighborhood.



Towards Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Highways

Author : Umar Zakir Abdul Hamid

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 17,51 MB

Release : 2021-06-17

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3030660427

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This book combines comprehensive multi-angle discussions on fully connected and automated vehicle highway implementation. It covers the current progress of the works towards autonomous vehicle highway development, which encompasses the discussion on the technical, social, and policy as well as security aspects of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) topics. This, in return, will be beneficial to a vast amount of readers who are interested in the topics of CAV, Automated Highway and Smart City, among many others. Topics include, but are not limited to, Autonomous Vehicle in the Smart City, Automated Highway, Smart-Cities Transportation, Mobility as a Service, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Data Management of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle, Autonomous Trucks, and Autonomous Freight Transportation. Brings together contributions discussing the latest research in full automated highway implementation; Discusses topics such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, and smart highways; Features contributions from researchers, academics, and professionals from a broad perspective.



Introduction to Self-Driving Vehicle Technology

Author : Hanky Sjafrie

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 12,3 MB

Release : 2019-11-27

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1000711773

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This book aims to teach the core concepts that make Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) possible. It is aimed at people who want to get their teeth into self-driving vehicle technology, by providing genuine technical insights where other books just skim the surface. The book tackles everything from sensors and perception to functional safety and cybersecurity. It also passes on some practical know-how and discusses concrete SDV applications, along with a discussion of where this technology is heading. It will serve as a good starting point for software developers or professional engineers who are eager to pursue a career in this exciting field and want to learn more about the basics of SDV algorithms. Likewise, academic researchers, technology enthusiasts, and journalists will also find the book useful. Key Features: Offers a comprehensive technological walk-through of what really matters in SDV development: from hardware, software, to functional safety and cybersecurity Written by an active practitioner with extensive experience in series development and research in the fields of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving Covers theoretical fundamentals of state-of-the-art SLAM, multi-sensor data fusion, and other SDV algorithms. Includes practical information and hands-on material with Robot Operating System (ROS) and Open Source Car Control (OSCC). Provides an overview of the strategies, trends, and applications which companies are pursuing in this field at present as well as other technical insights from the industry.



No One at the Wheel

Author : Samuel I Schwartz

Publisher : PublicAffairs

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 20,32 MB

Release : 2018-11-20

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 1541724046

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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner? Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? It will further erode our privacy, since the vehicle can relay our location at any moment. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking. Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store.



Sweatshops on Wheels

Author : Michael H. Belzer

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 37,3 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780195128864

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Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.