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On the future of transportation in an era of automated and autonomous vehicles

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Hancock, P. A., Nourbakhsh, Illah, Stewart, Jack·2019·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Automated vehicles (AVs) already navigate US highways and those of many other nations around the world. Current questions about AVs do not now revolve around whether such technologies should or should not be implemented; they are already with us. Rather, such questions are more and more focused on how such technologies will impact evolving transportation systems, our social world, and the individuals who live within it and whether such systems ought to be fully automated or remain under some form of direct human control. More importantly, how will mobility itself change as these independent operational vehicles first share and then dominate our roadways? How will the public be kept apprised of their evolving capacities, and what will be the impact of science and the communication of scientific advances across the varying forms of social media on these developments? We look here to address these issues and to provide some suggestions for the problems that are currently emerging.

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Authors
Hancock, P. A., Nourbakhsh, I., & Stewart, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Central Florida (US)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
  • Wired Magazine, San Francisco, CA 94107
Corresponding author
Hancock, P. A.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2019-01-14
Volume
116
Issue
16
Pages
7684-7691
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2908550123
Cited by
312
References
73
Citations by year
2026: 30 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 61 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 1
FWCI
17.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Keywords
autonomous vehicles, future of transport, mobility, public understanding of technology, science communication, social media, societal impact of automation

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