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Who will be responsible when driving responsibility will be shared between human driver and vehicle?
How can drivers be fully aware of the dangers arising in situations where operational control shifts from the automated vehicle to him/her?
How will human-machine interaction have to be structured to prevent risks?
Drivers will have to be trained to recognize and cope with these risky situations?

Dr Haibo Chen and his colleagues Jo-Ann Pattinson and Subhajit Basu of the University of Leeds,…

Aim of the European research project is to provide guidelines and recommendations for a user-friendly evolution of future connected and autonomous vehicles.

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are at the heart of today’s new mobility and will be even more present in the near future. Autopilot, lane assistance, our new cars have already several features of automation integrated and therewith function already at a level 3 of automation. More is to come. Some buses are already fully…

Ecorys together with TRT, M-Five, VTT, SEURECO, ERTICO, UITP and IRU analysed the employment and social impacts of connected and automated driving (CAD). The 16 month study was finalised end of last year and has now been published. The study was implemented for the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission. It provides an analysis of the short, medium- and long-term impacts of CAD on jobs, employment, skills and knowledge, as well as an investigation…

Celina Kacpersky (University of Mannheim) presented the results of PAsCA's preliminary research into CAV's acceptance into the recently published paper "Ambivalence in Stakeholders' views on CAVs.

Find more information on the Conference at: https://2020.hci.international
 

Under the Horizon 2020 programme, the PAsCAL project interfaces with other important projects to promote the development and acceptance of autonomous vehicles.

The PAsCAL project turned one year old. These were months of intense work, during which the foundations for the planned activities were laid, but not only. For example, the first interviews with sector experts and the first surveys have already been carried out, among groups of citizens in different European countries and with specific…

PAsCAL's preliminary research into CAV's acceptance investigates vision and worst-case scenarios held by representatives of stakeholder groups that will be shaping how CAVs are introduced: representatives of Public Administrations, automotive original equipment manufacturers, insurance companies, public transportation service providers, mobility experts and politicians.

The results are conveyed in "Ambivalence in stakeholders’ views on connected and autonomous vehicles“ by Celina Kacperski,  …

Work has begun on building on the UK’s first stretch of road designed for testing autonomous vehicles that will be open to automakers and tech firms later this year.

Read more about it on E&T by clicking here.

Countries around the world have responded to the covid-19 coronavirus with lockdowns, restrictions, and technology solutions that use artificial intelligence to combat the virus. As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, China is first to emerge from covid-19 imposed lockdowns thanks to cutting-edge technology, with autonomous vehicles and smart cities seeing an acceleration during this time. 

Read more about it on MIT Technology Review by clicking here.

The needs of people with visual impairment require specific technological responses for fairer and more accessible development of new autonomous driving technologies

Most blind and many partially-sighted people do not have sufficient residual sight to be able to travel safely and independently by relying on their eyesight. And most of them are not in a financial position to afford the full cost of mobility aids.

Article 20 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…