Autonomous Vehicles

Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Impacts

George Dimitrakopoulos, Aggelos Tsakanikas, Elias Panagiotopoulos
Elsevier S&T
202 pages
ISBN: 978-0323901376
April 2021

Autonomous Vehicles: Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Impacts explores both the autonomous driving concepts and the key hardware and software enablers, Artificial intelligence tools, required infrastructure, communication protocols, and interaction with non-autonomous vehicles. It analyses the impacts of autonomous driving using a scenario-based approach to quantify the effects on the overall economy and affected sectors. It assess the future of autonomous driving, and investigates whether individuals are ready to use advanced automated driving vehicles technology, and to what extent we as a society are prepared to accept highly automated vehicles on the road.