AV

Autonomous Vehicles

by Mia Wong

What's taking so long?

Frameworks:

• Technological Determinism (Smith)

[Science for human betterment]

• Distributive Justice (Cozzens)

[Risks and benefits, for whom]

Disabled, Deaf and Blind Populations

Grandma + Grandpa

Merrill

Risks

Uncle Scott +

Aunt Rebecca

Disruptive Technology

• Fair and equal access
• Safety
• Hackability
• Privacy (private company,

government)

• Destruction of small-town businesses
• Negative impact on travel

economy (flights, scenic train tours)

• Electricity
• Flight
• Personal Cars
• X-rays
• The Internet
• Personal Computer
• iPhone

Marginalized Groups:

Autonomous Vehicles:

excluded from mainstream social, economic, cultural, or political life

Test Highway, Japan

a vehicle that can guide itself without human conduction

Benefits

Heathrow Airport, England

• Affordable housing (elimination of gas stations)
• Recycling space (garages, parking lots)
• Shifts infrastructure costs
• New jobs, addition to GDP
• Improving public health (1.25 million deaths by automobile annually)
• Releases household income
• Profit in AV (advertising, ride costs, etc.)
• Changing the insurance market
• Significantly lower or eliminate impaired driving deaths, sentences
• Cutting oil and car emissions, improved air quality

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