On the future of transportation in an era of automated and autonomous vehicles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 116, Issue 16, 2019, Pages 7684-7691

  Hancock, P A ^a   Nourbakhsh, Illah ^b   Stewart, Jack ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wired Magazine   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated vehicles; Future transportation infrastructure; Individuated technology; Public reactions; Trust in autonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRUST;

EID: 85064355391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805770115     Document Type: Article

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