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Self-Driving

Vehicles in the Park

Bryant Walker Smith

Center for Internet and Society

Center for Automotive Research

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A robot by any other name

Self-driving

Driverless

Automatic

Automated

Autonomous

Autonomated

Robotic

Robotic

Unmanned

….

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Not your father’s Oldsmobile

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Automated car-tography

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Real-time sensing performed by the…

Driver

Vehicle

Environment

Evolving and revolving

Driver

Environ-ment

Vehicle

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Antilock brakes

Cruise control

Stability control

Park assist

Adaptive CC

Lanekeeping

Obstacle detection

Fully automated

vehicles

Pavement markings

Traffic signals

Actuated signals

Traffic radio

Dynamic signs

GPS navigation

(DSRC)

Connected

vehicles

Connected and automated

Evolving and revolving

Driver

Environ-ment

Vehicle

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Antilock brakes

Cruise control

Stability control

Park assist

Adaptive CC

Lanekeeping

Obstacle detection

Fully automated

vehicles

Pavement markings

Traffic signals

Actuated signals

Traffic radio

Dynamic signs

GPS navigation

(DSRC)

Connected

vehicles

Connected and automated

Look Ma: No hands! But:

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Laser

Laser Cameras

(GPS)

Radar Inertial sensors

Plus: A highly detailed and coded roadway map

A different kind of MAP-21

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Source: Google

Generally speaking

Driver Assistance

Systems (Production)

Highly Automated

Vehicles (Research)

Examples Numerous optional or

standard packages

Many automakers,

universities, Google

Radar/camera Yes Yes

Laser No Yes

Roadway map No Yes

V2V/V2I communication No No*

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Evolving and revolving

Driver

Environ-ment

Vehicle

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Antilock brakes

Cruise control

Stability control

Park assist

Adaptive CC

Lanekeeping

Obstacle detection

Fully automated

vehicles

Pavement markings

Traffic signals

Actuated signals

Traffic radio

Dynamic signs

GPS navigation

(DSRC)

Connected

vehicles

Connected and automated

Evolving and revolving

Driver

Environ-ment

Vehicle

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Antilock brakes

Cruise control

Stability control

Park assist

Adaptive CC

Lanekeeping

Obstacle detection

Fully automated

vehicles

Pavement markings

Traffic signals

Actuated signals

Traffic radio

Dynamic signs

GPS navigation

(DSRC)

Connected

vehicles

Connected and fully automated

You talkin’ to me?

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Source: USDOT ITS JPO

V2V

V2I

Dedicated to DSRC?

FCC allocated the 5.850-5.925 GHz band

for ITS-specific “dedicated short-range

communications” in the United States

Potential uses: Look-ahead warnings,

collision avoidance, signal prioritization, toll

payment, traffic information, platoons….

NHTSA decision on next steps for vehicle

communication is (over?)due in 2013

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What’s law got to do with it?

Regulation

Legality, standards, licensing, rules of the road

Compensation

Liability, reputation, insurance

Information

Data, privacy, security, IP

Preparation

Socioeconomics

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Questions!

Uncertainty about:

Technology

Deployment

Law

Effects

Responsibility

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