‘Urban Mode’ Driverless Vehicle
Operation
The Next Challenge?
Nicholas Robinson,
M.IEEE, M.IMechE, MCP+i (‘99), B.Sc(HONS), M.Des(RCA)
4/20/2015
(C) Nicholas Robinson, Nicholas Robinson Design,
Cottingham, UK, Inventor@Driver-less.com
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Driverless Technology –
Where it’s at
• Inside Google’s Driverless Car
Packet-Switched Driverless Vehicle
Operation in ‘Urban Mode’
•Where its going
– going Native: Driverless Vehicle
Technology from the macro, Real
World perspective
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How it Started
• Red Flag Act
Where its been: Historical Development:
The “Autobahn” View
• Speed is King!
• Kraftwerk
– 1970s post-war German electronic music band
– Emotional response to ‘speed’ being the new
solution to getting around faster
– The motorway compared to a ‘factory’ producing
‘traffic’ on a ‘production line’
• Likened to the Economy requiring to grow by having the
production line run ever-faster
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Urban Developer’s View
• Historical Development
– Average speed of horsedrawn vehicles in Victorian
London is (google) 8mph!
• Horses for courses
– Average speed of traffic in
London 3 Decades of
average traffic speed data
1968 - 1998
– Average speed of traffic in
London has slowed to just
10.2mph in 2013! Traffic
slows to 10.2 mph
• Red Flag Act 1865
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Macro Perspective – Many-to-Many
• Urban traffic management
– Present view
• Internet of Things IoT
– Future view
• Packet-switched traffic
• Routing and directing traffic
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Past, Present and Future Views
Past
Technology: the needs of the one (driver) outweigh the needs of the many
(passengers, other road users) as a primary consideration
People movement as a secondary ‘utilitarian’ consideration
Present
Traffic congestion management ‘by red tape’: the needs of the many
outweigh those of the one as a primary consideration
People movement still treated as a secondary consideration
Future
Embedded ‘Packet Switched’ solutions integrate people technology and
crowd to give parity with smarter people movement (transit)
Public-private partnerships
Determination of personal space, crowd behaviour and demographic
trends – our social and health needs are changing and evolving
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Packet-Switched Smart Grid PSSG
• PSSG utilises EVs and their batteries to store
and distribute charge, similarly to traffic
management in a city as described.
• Distributed power generation model
• Local micro-grids - reconfigurable
• www.ecomagination.com/NPRFTE
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The Future View: Packet Switched
Smarter Traffic Management
• Imagine the scene from “I, Robot”
– Will Smith plays a ‘retro’ cop living in a large
future metropolis dystopia where “peoplecentric” ‘commonsense’ leadership and social
objectives have been subverted to serve
“machine-centric” ones
– Isaac Asimov rules for robotics are quoted
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