Urban Mode Driverless Vehicle Operation

The Next Challenge?

Nicholas Robinson,
M.IEEE, M.IMechE, MCP+i (99), B.Sc(HONS), M.Des(RCA)
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Driverless Technology Where its at

Inside Googles Driverless Car

Packet-Switched Driverless Vehicle Operation in Urban Mode

Where its going
going Native: Driverless Vehicle Technology from the macro, Real World perspective

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How it Started
Red Flag Act

Where its been: Historical Development: The Autobahn View

Speed is King! Kraftwerk
1970s post-war German electronic music band Emotional response to speed being the new solution to getting around faster The motorway compared to a factory producing traffic on a production line
Likened to the Economy requiring to grow by having the production line run ever-faster
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Urban Developers View

Historical Development Average speed of horsedrawn vehicles in Victorian London is (google) 8mph! Horses for courses Average speed of traffic in London 3 Decades of average traffic speed data 1968 - 1998 Average speed of traffic in London has slowed to just 10.2mph in 2013! Traffic slows to 10.2 mph Red Flag Act 1865
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Macro Perspective Many-to-Many

Urban traffic management
Present view

Internet of Things IoT

Future view
Packet-switched traffic Routing and directing traffic

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Past, Present and Future Views

Past Technology: the needs of the one (driver) outweigh the needs of the many (passengers, other road users) as a primary consideration People movement as a secondary utilitarian consideration Present Traffic congestion management by red tape: the needs of the many outweigh those of the one as a primary consideration People movement still treated as a secondary consideration Future Embedded Packet Switched solutions integrate people technology and crowd to give parity with smarter people movement (transit) Public-private partnerships Determination of personal space, crowd behaviour and demographic trends our social and health needs are changing and evolving

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Packet-Switched Smart Grid PSSG

PSSG utilises EVs and their batteries to store and distribute charge, similarly to traffic management in a city as described. Distributed power generation model Local micro-grids - reconfigurable www.ecomagination.com/NPRFTE

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The Future View: Packet Switched Smarter Traffic Management

Imagine the scene from I, Robot
Will Smith plays a retro cop living in a large future metropolis dystopia where peoplecentric commonsense leadership and social objectives have been subverted to serve machine-centric ones Isaac Asimov rules for robotics are quoted

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