Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816;
Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32826.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Apr 16;116(16):7684-7691. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1805770115. Epub 2019 Jan 14.
Automated vehicles (AVs) already navigate US highways and those of many other nations around the world. Current questions about AVs do not now revolve around whether such technologies should or should not be implemented; they are already with us. Rather, such questions are more and more focused on how such technologies will impact evolving transportation systems, our social world, and the individuals who live within it and whether such systems ought to be fully automated or remain under some form of direct human control. More importantly, how will mobility itself change as these independent operational vehicles first share and then dominate our roadways? How will the public be kept apprised of their evolving capacities, and what will be the impact of science and the communication of scientific advances across the varying forms of social media on these developments? We look here to address these issues and to provide some suggestions for the problems that are currently emerging.
自动驾驶汽车(AV)已经在美国和世界上许多其他国家的高速公路上行驶。目前关于自动驾驶汽车的问题不是这些技术是否应该被采用,而是这些技术已经在我们的生活中了。相反,这些问题越来越关注这些技术将如何影响不断发展的交通系统、我们的社会世界以及生活在其中的个人,以及这些系统是否应该完全自动化或仍然在某种形式下受到直接的人为控制。更重要的是,随着这些独立作业的车辆首先共享、然后主导我们的道路,机动性本身将如何改变?公众将如何了解它们不断发展的能力,以及科学以及在各种社交媒体上传播科学进步对这些发展的影响将是什么?我们在这里探讨这些问题,并为当前出现的问题提供一些建议。