Research Catalog

Title

Autonomous vehicle technology : a guide for policymakers / James M. Anderson, Nidhi Kalra, Karlyn D. Stanley, Paul Sorensen, Constantine Samaras, Oluwatobi A. Oluwatola.

Author

Anderson, James M.

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Kalra, Nidhi
• Stanley, Karlyn D.
• Sorensen, Paul, 1967-
• Samaras, Constantine
• Oluwatola, Oluwatobi A.
• Rand Corporation issuing body, publisher.

Description

xxviii, 185 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

For the past hundred years, innovation within the automotive sector has created safer, cleaner, and more affordable vehicles, but progress has been incremental. The industry now appears close to substantial change, engendered by autonomous, or “self-driving,” vehicle technologies. This technology offers the possibility of significant benefits to social welfare—saving lives; reducing crashes, congestion, fuel consumption, and pollution; increasing mobility for the disabled; and ultimately improving land use. This report is intended as a guide for state and federal policymakers on the many issues that this technology raises. After surveying the advantages and disadvantages of the technology, RAND researchers determined that the benefits of the technology likely outweigh the disadvantages. However, many of the benefits will accrue to parties other than the technology’s purchasers. These positive externalities may justify some form of subsidy. The report also explores policy issues, communications, regulation and standards, and liability issues raised by the technology; and concludes with some tentative guidance for policymakers, guided largely by the principle that the technology should be allowed and perhaps encouraged when it is superior to an average human driver. This version of the report, RR-443-2, replaces an earlier version that contained an incomplete account of General Motor’s policy on its use of OnStar customer data, none of which affected the findings of the report.

Subject

• Automated vehicles > Government policy > United States
• Transportation and states > United States
• Automobile industry and trade > Technological innovations
• Automobile industry and trade > Environmental aspects
• Automobile industry and trade

Note

• "RR-443-2-RC"--Cover page 4.
• "This version of the report, RR-443-2, replaces an earlier version thet contained an incomplete account of General Motor's policy on its use of OnSrat customer data in footnote 8 on page 69, none of which affected the findings of the report"--Page iv.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-185).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The Promise and Perils of Autonomous Vehicle Technology -- Current State Law and Legislative Activity -- Brief History and Current State of Autonomous Vehicles -- The Role of Telematics and Communications -- Standards and Regulations and Their Application to Autonomous Vehicle Technologies -- Liability Implications of Autonomous Vehicle Technology -- Guidance for Policymakers and Conclusion -- Appendix: Conclusions from Qualitative Interviews with Stakeholders.

ISBN

• 9780833083982
• 0833083988

OCLC

• 946656847
• SCSB-9880279

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library