Driverless Cars to dominate by 2040, says IEEE
By Design Engineering Staff
General AutomotiveEngineering organization foresees automated vehicles as 75 percent of cars on the road in 27 years.
Members of IEEE have selected autonomous vehicles as the most promising form of intelligent transportation, anticipating that they will account for up to 75 percent of cars on the road by the year 2040.
“With any form of intelligent transportation, building the infrastructure to accommodate it is often the largest barrier to widespread adoption,” said Dr. Alberto Broggi, IEEE Senior Member and professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy. “Since we can use the existing networks of roadways, autonomous vehicles are advantageous for changing how the majority of the world will travel on a daily basis.”
No stranger to autonomous vehicles, Broggi was the director of a 2010 project that enabled two driverless cars to successfully complete an 8,000-mile road trip, traveling from Parma to Shanghai. The increased use of driverless cars will be the catalyst for transforming vehicular travel over the next 28 years, concluded the engineering organization concluded.
According to the IEEE, driver and passenger acceptance are the largest barriers to widespread adoption of driverless cars. “Drivers and passengers are hesitant to believe in the technology enough to completely hand over total control,” said Jeffrey Miller, IEEE Member and Associate Professor in the Computer Systems Engineering department at University of Alaska Anchorage. “Over the next 28 years, use of more automated technologies will spark a snowball effect of acceptance and driverless vehicles will dominate the road.”
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