Autonomous vehicles lite self-driving technologies should start small, go slow
Autonomous vehicles lite self-driving technologies should start small, go slow
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DOI：
10.1109/mspec.2020.9014458
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
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影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Gaudiot, Jean-Luc
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作者：
Liu, Shaoshan;Gaudiot, Jean-Luc
许多年轻的都市人不想拥有汽车，而且与前几代人不同，他们不必依赖公共交通。相反，他们将出行视为一种服务：当他们需要行驶较长距离（例如超过 5 英里（8 公里））时，他们会使用手机呼叫 Uber（或类似乘车共享公司的汽车）。如果他们还有不到一英里左右的路程，他们要么步行，要么使用各种“微移动”服务，例如越来越普遍的 Lime 和 Bird 踏板车，或者在一些城市使用共享自行车。问题在于，当今的移动即服务生态系统通常不能很好地覆盖中距离（例如几英里）。事实证明，租用 Uber 或 Lyft 进行此类短途旅行的费用昂贵得令人沮丧，而骑踏板车或自行车超过一英里左右的路程对许多人来说可能会很费力。因此，让自己到达 1 到 5 英里外的目的地可能是一个挑战。然而，此类旅行约占乘客总旅行里程的一半。许多中距离旅行发生在交通有限的环境中，例如大学校园和工业园区，现在在这些地方部署小型低速电动自动驾驶汽车既经济合理，技术上也可行。我们与一家初创公司合作，旨在使这种交通方式变得流行。 PerceptIn 公司在日本奈良和福冈的旅游景点拥有自动驾驶汽车；在中国深圳的一个工业园区；目前正在安排车辆运送公司总部所在地印第安纳州费舍尔市周围的人员。
Many young urbanites don't want to own a car, and unlike earlier generations, they don't have to rely on mass transit. Instead they treat mobility as a service: When they need to travel significant distances, say, more than 5 miles (8 kilometers), they use their phones to summon an Uber (or a car from a similar ride-sharing company). If they have less than a mile or so to go, they either walk or use various "micromobility" services, such as the increasingly ubiquitous Lime and Bird scooters or, in some cities, bike sharing. The problem is that today's mobility-as-a-service ecosystem often doesn't do a good job covering intermediate distances, say a few miles. Hiring an Uber or Lyft for such short trips proves frustratingly expensive, and riding a scooter or bike more than a mile or so can be taxing to many people. So getting yourself to a destination that is from 1 to 5 miles away can be a challenge. Yet such trips account for about half of the total passenger miles traveled. Many of these intermediate-distance trips take place in environments with limited traffic, such as university campuses and industrial parks, where it is now both economically reasonable and technologically possible to deploy small, low-speed autonomous vehicles powered by electricity. We've been involved with a startup that intends to make this form of transportation popular. The company, PerceptIn, has autonomous vehicles operating at tourist sites in Nara and Fukuoka, Japan; at an industrial park in Shenzhen, China; and is just now arranging for its vehicles to shuttle people around Fishers, Ind., the location of the company's headquarters.