Sociotechnical Specification for the Broader Impacts of Autonomous
Vehicles
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07395v1
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 23:03:43 GMT
- Title: Sociotechnical Specification for the Broader Impacts of Autonomous
Vehicles
- Authors: Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Aaron J. Snoswell, Michael Dennis, Rowan
McAllister, Cathy Wu
- Abstract summary: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will have a transformative impact on society.
The ability to control both the individual behavior of AVs and the overall flow of traffic provides new affordances that permit AVs to control these effects.
This paper presents a problem of sociotechnical specification: the need to distinguish which essential features of the transportation system are in or out of scope for AV development.
- Score: 10.08754310662559
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will have a transformative impact on society.
Beyond the local safety and efficiency of individual vehicles, these effects
will also change how people interact with the entire transportation system.
This will generate a diverse range of large and foreseeable effects on social
outcomes, as well as how those outcomes are distributed. However, the ability
to control both the individual behavior of AVs and the overall flow of traffic
also provides new affordances that permit AVs to control these effects. This
comprises a problem of sociotechnical specification: the need to distinguish
which essential features of the transportation system are in or out of scope
for AV development. We present this problem space in terms of technical,
sociotechnical, and social problems, and illustrate examples of each for the
transport system components of social mobility, public infrastructure, and
environmental impacts. The resulting research methodology sketches a path for
developers to incorporate and evaluate more transportation system features
within AV system components over time.
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