{"id":11729,"date":"2018-07-06T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilitytechgreen.com\/en\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2021-01-22T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:20:55","slug":"autonomous-vehicles-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilitytechgreen.com\/en\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/autonomous-vehicles-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous vehicles: technological fantasy or reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the vengeful car, to talkative taxis and road companions with vocal control, autonomous vehicles haunt our collective imaginary since ages. Between a powerful technological dream and an almost ethical concern, all these representations largely influenced the transition we are experiencing today between fantasy and reality, as the race to the autonomy has never been so intense.
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Who doesn\u2019t remember David Hasselhoff, wind in his hair and leather jacket on his shoulders, ever so classy at the steering wheel of KITT<\/a><\/strong>? Equipped with an artificial intelligence, it acted like an ideal sidekick in all of Michael Knight\u2019s adventures, both able to get by autonomously and communicate like a real human being. The 80\u2019s tv show then impersonated a phenomenon that already existed in mainstream pop culture: the idea of a vehicle being an extension and attribute of the hero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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But here the presence of a driver such as Knight in a vehicle that could entirely move by itself perfectly demonstrates the reluctance we have to \u00ab\u00a0erase\u00a0\u00bb the human factor in the decision process<\/strong> although the vehicle has proven many times that it is intelligent enough to be self sufficient. It is very similar to what we can see today with semi-autonomous Tesla in which the driver has to keep the hands on the steering wheel in order to react as quickly as possible in case of danger.<\/p>\n

In the majority of scenarios, it is always that friction between the vehicle\u2019s artificial intelligence and human reactions<\/strong> that is central. And despite technological advances science-fiction does not seem to have quite yet resolve this human-machine cohabitation.<\/p>\n

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Autonomous vehicle VS protagonist<\/h3>\n
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In 2048, it is Schwarzy that gets up close more or less successfully with Johnny Cabs<\/strong> in Total Recall (1990). Autonomous taxis, they nevertheless have a somewhat driver through the figure of a bottomless robot in charge of taking passengers\u2019 instructions and making conversation. All of that with a questionable\u2026 success.<\/p>\n

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