Tuesday, 25 September 2018

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The article entitled "Driving to safety: How many miles of driving would it take to demonstrate autonomous vehicle reliability?" by Nidhi, K and Susan P (2016) acknowledge the fact that in this fast-changing society, Autonomous vehicle are an emerging trend. 

An Autonomous vehicle; this is definitely a controversial topic to talk about especially when this is pondered between an individual like an engineer and a driving instructor. Is this the future we are looking ahead to? An approximation of 32,000 people was killed with an average of two million injured yearly due to the fatality of car trash (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2015). Does it scare one enough? To top up with that factor, 90 percent of such problems are caused by human errors. 

By having an automated vehicle, will this end up solving the issues of the number of car crashes? The article states that "autonomous vehicles have the potential to significantly mitigate this public health crisis by eliminating many of the mistakes that human driver routinely makes" (Anderson et at., 2016). This can reassure us that we can look forward to a society where we can be as shown in the picture. Be at ease from taking the wheel, as we take our time and spend it as our personal preference because this is the society we are looking ahead to. 

The most important thing about an autonomous vehicle is that you can easily and confidently leave your life at the will of technology. This is as when you correlate to letting the car bring you to the destination. This is definitely doable with the help of applying telematics into automotive vehicles.  

References
Nidhi, K and Susan P (2016) Driving to safety: How many miles of driving would it take to demonstrate autonomous vehicle reliability? Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856416302129?via%3Dihub#b0035 [Accessed at 23 Sept 2018]

Anderson et at (2016) Autonomous Vehicle Technology. Available at: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR443-2.html [Accessed at 23 Sept 2018]


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2 comments:

  1. Dear Josephine,

    The summary is quite well done for the content and the language used. However, it would be better if you can reduce the number of questions in the summary and also be consistent in the capital letter of "Autonomous" vehicles.

    Regards,
    Ai Min

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    1. Dear Ai Min

      Thank you for your kind feedback. I will take the problems surfaced and changed it accordingly for my next post.

      Warmest Regards
      Josephine

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