Is Driverless Car Another Weiserian Mistake?

Conference paper (2017)

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Hamed S. Alavi Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Farzaneh Bahrami Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
H. Verma University of Freiburg
Denis Lalanne University of Freiburg
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2017

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English

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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.