Connected and autonomous vehicles are an exciting development in the ITS sector – but amid
the hype some big questions about their deployment remain unanswered, finds Ben Spencer
Connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs) have the potential to change the way we travel - and to eliminate road fatalities. But policy makers and regulators will need to ensure user and public safety is included in future planning. The legal and insurance industries will have to catch up, too. For example, questions over who is
Some people in the transportation industry may be reluctant to treat travellers as goods that need to be shipped from point A to point B. The traffic software engineers at PTV Group are not some of those people. According to Jongsun Won, the lessons he and his colleagues have learned from years of creating logistics software are extremely useful in the new age of autonomous vehicles.
“In an autonomous vehicle, people are essentially the goods that are being transported around a city,” Won said. “There are
