Chapter 8 – Current Technology and Emergent Issues
Chapter 8 – Current Technology and Emergent Issues
Electric cars and autonomous cars
Electric vehicles
EVs may or may not be the wave of the future, but the challenge is the infrastructure to support electric chargers. BC Hydro has many resources on this topic.
https://www.bchydro.com/powersmart/electric-vehicles.html
Autonomous Vehicles
These are vehicles that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input. The design purpose is to
a) increase safety
b) reduce traffic congestion
c) eliminate the need for insurance
d) reduce infrastructure cost
e) increase mobility
f) reduce fuel consumption
From wikipedia autonomous car
History. Experiments started in 1920, with a semi-autonomous vehicle being produced in 1977 from Japan’s Tsubkuba Mechanical. 1980 at Carnegie.