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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Driverless"”.
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Driverless dreams : technological narratives and the shape of the automated car
… beings. Automated cars, popularly rendered as "driverless" or "self-driving" cars, are a major sector of technological development in artificial intelligence and present a variety of questions for design, policy, and the culture at large. This work addresses the dominant narratives and …
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Know Your User: Building a Predictive Model of Consumer Preference for Driverless Cars
<p>INTRODUCTION: This dissertation identifies factors significantly predicting participants' preference for riding in an autonomous vehicle rather than flying on a commercial aircraft. A plethora of research has investigated these two transportation industries independently; however, scarcely any …
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A Systems Analysis and Technology Roadmap for Autonomous Long-Haul Cargo Transport
… advances in autonomous technologies to enable driverless operations. Long haul trucking/ freight applications are expected to see the deployment of autonomous technologies before they are deployed in consumer cars given the deterministic operational design domain the trucks operate in. Most of …
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Should the City of Cape Town plan for fully autonomous vehicles?
… status of the industry in the evolution towards driverless cars, and predict how autonomous vehicles will be able to penetrate and impact the road transport network of South Africa, with a particular emphasis on Cape Town and the MBT industry. Method The research method included a literature …
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Determination of Sensors Characteristics of Curb and Development of Surrogate Curb for the Evaluation of Vehicle Active Safety Systems
… world is now trying to build capabilities for driverless or vehicle assisted driving. Building capabilities for driverless cars practically means first developing training methods, then training the machine, evaluating the test results, and then based on testing results; develop a confidence …
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The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on the Real Estate Housing Market in the United States
… the form of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) or driverless ride-hailing services. This thesis analyzes the impact of AVs on the housing market, examining it at both macro and micro levels. The macro level analysis examines the complementary impact of SAVs on public transportation systems and …
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Modeling medical devices for plug-and-play interoperability
… devices to interoperate with the manager in a driverless fashion. The system was tested using simulated medical devices.
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Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Stopping and Jackknifing Dynamics
… for tractor-trailers is the next step for driverless roads. Tractor-trailers are heavy, large, and have a pivot joint between the tractor and trailer that makes the movement between the two more complicated. The purpose of the research presented here is to determine the best forward …
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Design and development of an affordable autonomous vehicle for bike lanes
… in academia and in industry, towards developing driverless vehicle technology. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to dramatically reduce the contribution of driver error and negligence as the cause of vehicle collisions. They will also provide a means of personal mobility to people who are …
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Age-Inclusive Design Framework for On-Demand, Shared Autonomous Vehicles
… (e.g., rollators, baby strollers) face in using driverless vehicles with hitherto unseen form factors?’ ‘What spatial allowances and features should vehicle designers consider when re-imagining the interior space of autonomous vehicles?’ The study analyses user needs, questions, and suggestions …
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Exploring image recognition: applying convoluted neural networks and learning to recognize safe cyclists
… bicycle safety into their adaptation to the ""driverless future"". This paper is an exploration into the use of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based Machine Learning (ML) algorithm to identify bicycle-borne road users, who wear helmets. We use a pre-made CNN framework-YOLO (You Only Look …
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Systems modelling and ethical decision algorithms for autonomous vehicle collisions
… safety systems (ASS), it is expected that driverless AVs will result in a reduced number of road traffic accidents (RTAs) and fatalities on the roads. However, until the technology matures, collisions involving AVs will inevitably take place. Herein lies the hub of the problem: if AVs are …
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Decentralized teaching and learning in cooperative multiagent systems
… applications, including organization of driverless car fleets [1, 2], target surveillance [3], and warehouse automation [4-6]. The unifying challenge in these real-world settings is the presence of domain stochasticity (due to noisy sensors and actuators) and partial observability (due to …
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Collision and Avoidance Modelling of Autonomous Vehicles using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network
… vehicles, also called self-driving vehicles or driverless vehicles are completely robotised driving frameworks to allow the vehicle to react to outside conditions within a bunch of calculations to play out the undertakings. This thesis summarised artificial intelligence and optimisation …
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Phylogenetic studies into the development of foetal tissues and their neoplastic derivatives
… in cancer. Each placental biopsy represents a driverless expansion of a spatially-fixed early embryonic precursor, making the placenta inherently mosaic. I turn my attention to neoplasia in Chapters 3 and 4. Using WGS from bulk and microdissected germ cell tumours in Chapter 3, I detail …
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Task-driven navigation and mapping with resource constraints
… new possibilities for mobile robots, such as driverless cars, drones, delivery robots, and autonomous marines vehicles. While advances in sensing technology have enabled robots to obtain data quickly and cheaply, robots are typically resource-constrained in storing and processing all the of …
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How system configuration shapes demand: agent-based simulation of mobility-on-demand systems
… to investigate how the transition to true driverless operations (SAE Level 4) and the use of multifunctional vehicle concepts could shape the longer-term evolution of AMoD toward integrated Transport-as-a-Service models that combine passenger and freight transport.
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Development and Testing Of The iCACC Intersection Controller For Automated Vehicles
… connected vehicle technology, and the future of driverless vehicle management. Finally, the public acceptability of the new advanced in-vehicle technologies is a challenging task and this research will provide valuable feedback for researchers, automobile manufacturers, and decision makers in …
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Possible futures for fully automated vehicles : using scenario planning and system dynamics to grapple with uncertainty
… vehicles (also commonly referred to as "driverless" or "self-driving" cars) will significantly change transportation systems in the United States and around the world. By reducing or eliminating many of the costs and disincentives of travel by automobile, these vehicles may have the …
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Information, Learning and Incentive Design for Urban Transportation Networks
… edges, and riders organize carpooled trips using driverless cars and split payments. Riders have heterogeneous preferences, with the value of each trip depending on the travel time of chosen route and rider-specific parameters that capture their individual value of time and carpool disutilities. …
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