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Information Age, UK: Cognizant’s Head of Innovation for Manufacturing and Logistics Says Governments Around the World are Already Planning for Fully Autonomous Vehicles

“Governments around the world are already planning for fully autonomous vehicles,” says Prasad Satyavolu. “In the US, there has been a $4 billion investment in self-driving regulations to ensure consistency across states, while the UK government has initiated driverless car trials in Bristol, Coventry, Milton Keynes and Greenwich, with plans to extend these tests to motorways as early as 2017.” Excerpts:

“The notion of driverless cars is not a foreign or futuristic thought,” writes Information Age. “Whether this is the beginning of the futuristic society so often portrayed in sci-fi films like I Robot remains open to debate. However, the reality is that fully autonomous vehicles will, in the next decade, become a presence on roads throughout the world. It seems that the rapid progression of driverless car technologies has accelerated government plans for establishing industry regulation surrounding privacy and physical safety. In addition to this, infrastructure changes must be considered to accommodate driverless cars on the road. This would take the form of smart roads.”

It adds, “Consumer habits indicate that the future of the driverless car industry may transition towards a ride-share service, similar to Uber’s business model….A future scenario where car ownership is limited, or eradicated, is not an unfathomable notion when environmental strains and extreme regulatory complexity are considered.”

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