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Autonomous Vehicles: The Driverless Fleet of the Future?

March 31, 2014 by Webfleet Solutions

The growing role of mobile broadband and data collection in vehicles is part of a broader set of trends, referred to commonly as either the Internet of Things or the Internet of Everything. More and more objects in our daily lives contain sensors, which collect data and share that information to enable new opportunities for efficiency improvements and connectivity features. These can provide benefits to everything from sports teams, businesses and governments, to ordinary people.

These devices could change many aspects of life, from street lamps that adapt to weather conditions, automated motorway signs that report conditions and diversion in real time, and bins that communicate levels of rubbish to allow the optimum routes to be calculated for dustbin lorries. Cisco says that in 2013 such devices generated $600 billion for corporations across the world in profits and predicted that they will be worth $19 trillion in global revenues by 2020.

The auto industry has been quick to adopt this technology, with many recent advances in the last few years, which we discussed in our post ‘The Rise of the Connected Car‘. But this is just the beginning for smart vehicles. Many technologies, currently either in development or being road tested, enable cars to make more and more decisions for themselves, without any input from the driver. This will lead to anything from automatic collision prevention to cars that are able to drive themselves, calculating the safest and fastest route. Some of these features are already in production, while others, such as driverless cars, require more testing and ever legislative changes before they enter the consumer and business markets.

It’s not just about efficiency, however: it’s about improving the experience of driving. Advanced systems assist drivers in difficult situations, help to automatically improve driving styles, and will allow people to do things they would never be able to do on their own, such as determining the route with the least risk drivers.

Eventually, autonomous cars could allow you to call your car to your exact location, enabling you to use driving time for more productive tasks. They could also make their own way to fuelling or recharging stations. Not only this, but they could limit the need for some of the current restrictions on drivers, making a number of traditional safety and behavioural considerations obsolete.

But at the same time, the driver may lose some freedom as their car does more and more of the work. On top of that, new legislation will need to be put in place as the driver loses control over the vehicle.

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Stuart Brunger says:

These are interesting development with far reaching consequences. Some expected and some unexpected. Some welcome and some unwelcome. We all view such developments through our own frame of reference – mine is the potential opportunity it could offer as to a provider of dynamic scheduling solutions. Let me explain. Our company provides solutions which allow a car hire company with a 20,000 vehicle fleet to optimally plan delivery and collection of vehicles to customers, we provide dynamic scheduling solutions to some of the largest private hire taxi companies, distribution and service companies. Lets imagine the picture you paint where, when I want transport – I summon my car to my location. Well in my language, it seems more like a driverless taxi, or driverless hire car being delivered. (Maybe these are the industries that will evolve) As a consumer, I will not need to own a car, I will just summon transport from a mobile App whenever I want it (much as I do a taxi) and it will be provided by an operator of driverless transport. But if as an individual, I do not own cars – ultimately that means less cars. And what are the follow on consequences for the insurance industry when there is no longer a driver to be liable and less cars to insure? Maybe against this background vehicle price will not be an issue where it is a choice of £170,000 car utilized 95% of the time or £25,000 car utilized 10% of the time

Taking the model of driverless fleets into the product distribution market – can we see operators of driverless trucks picking up products from co-located RDC’s to be delivered to competing supermarkets in the same town (at last) – where now both plan to send their own truck down the same stretch of motorway? (Arguably you can do this now, but perhaps it needs the change in technology to provoke change)

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