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Is Driverless Car Another Weiserian Mistake?

Authors:

Hamed S. Alavi,

Farzaneh Bahrami,

Himanshu Verma,

Denis LalanneAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

Pages 249 - 253

https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079155

Published: 10 June 2017 Publication History

Abstract

We present a structured discussion of the concept of driverless car as a major Ubicomp project, and particularly of its hypothetical integration into the fabric of city. The analytical framework is borrowed from the Transportation and Urban research domains, which provides us with a list of agreed-upon subject matters when accounting for car mobility in urban design. We pose concrete questions about each of these subjects as how self-driven personal vehicles could have a positive or negative impact on them. Out of the six discussed topics, this initial examination showed that driverless car could have a negative impact on five, suggesting smoke detected, and thus the need for broadening such inspections.

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DOI:10.1145/3064857

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