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Sustainability Prospects for Autonomous Vehicles: Environmental, Social, and Urban

Sustainability Prospects for Autonomous Vehicles: Environmental, Social, and Urban

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ISBN10: 0815363311
ISBN13: 9780815363316
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 4 2019
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.38
Language: English

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) has been strongly heralded as the most exciting innovation in automobility for decades. Autonomous Vehicles are no longer an innovation of the future (seen only in science fiction) but are now being road-tested for use. And yet while the technical and economic success and possibilities of the AV have been widely debated, there has been a notable lack of discussion around the social, behavioural, and environmental implications. This book is the first to address these issues and to deeply consider the environmental and social sustainability outlook for the AV and how it will impact on communities. Environmental and social sustainability are goals unlike those of technical development (a new tool) and economic development (a new investment). The goal of sustainability is development of societies that live well and equitably within their ecological limits. Is it reasonable and desirable that only technical and economic success comprise the swelling AV parade, or should we be looking at the wider impacts on personal well-being, wider society, and the environment?

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