scholarly journals The Automation of the Taxi Industry – Taxi Drivers’ Expectations and Attitudes Towards the Future of their Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Pakusch ◽  
Alexander Boden ◽  
Martin Stein ◽  
Gunnar Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Taxi Industry

AbstractAdvocates of autonomous driving predict that the occupation of taxi driver could be made obsolete by shared autonomous vehicles (SAV) in the long term. Conducting interviews with German taxi drivers, we investigate how they perceive the changes caused by advancing automation for the future of their business. Our study contributes insights into how the work of taxi drivers could change given the advent of autonomous driving: While the task of driving could be taken over by SAVs for standard trips, taxi drivers are certain that other areas of their work such as providing supplementary services and assistance to passengers would constitute a limit to such forms of automation, but probably involving a shifting role for the taxi drivers, one which focuses on the sociality of the work. Our findings illustrate how taxi drivers see the future of their work, suggesting design implications for tools that take various forms of assistance into account, and demonstrating how important it is to consider taxi drivers in the co-design of future taxis and SAV services.

scholarly journals Taxi drivers: ethnic segmentation, precarious work, and informal economic strategies in the Swedish taxi industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoran Slavnic
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
General Consequence ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Taxi Industry

This article invesitgates the processes of ethnic segmentation, precarious labour, and informalization in the Swedish taxi industry during a period of rapid deregulation during the 1990s. It does so by focussing on the life story of a single individual―Adem, a taxi driver in the Swedish city of Malmö. Despite his education, long working experience, and all efforts to make use of these advantages, all doors to an appropriate career in Sweden have remained closed to him. As a result, he has been pushed into working in the taxi sector, which is increasingly characterized by ethnic segmentation, hard working conditins, and harsh competition, forcing people to deploy informal economic strategies in order to survive. Adem’s fate becomes strongly determined by these socio-economical processes. At the same time, the article shows that these processes are not separate, but are closely interrelated and reinforce each other. On the broader level these processes are a general consequence of the neoliberal reconstruction of Western economies, and structural economic, political and social changes related to it.

scholarly journals Toward Policies to Manage the Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on the City: A Visioning Exercise

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Staricco ◽  
Valentina Rappazzo ◽  
Jacopo Scudellari ◽  
Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Great Uncertainty ◽  
Italian City ◽  
Transition Paths ◽  
The City ◽  
Passive Attitude

There is great uncertainty about the transition from human to autonomous driving vehicles (AVs), as well as about the extent and direction of their potential impacts on the urban built environment. Planners are aware of the importance of leading this transition but are hesitant about how to proceed, and public administrations generally show a passive attitude. One of the reasons is the difficulty of defining long-term visions and identifying transition paths to achieve the desired future. The literature on AVs is growing rapidly but most of the visions proposed so far do not consider in detail how circulation and parking of AVs will (or could) be differently regulated in cities. In this study, three visions for the Italian city of Turin are proposed. The aim of these visions is to highlight how different forms of regulation of AV circulation and parking can impact on the sustainability and livability of the city. A focus group and a set of interviews with experts and stakeholders were used to validate the three visions and assess their advisability and sustainability. This visioning exercise is the first step in the development of a backcasting process.

Autonomous driving in urban environments: approaches, lessons and challenges

2010 ◽  
Vol 368 (1928) ◽  
pp. 4649-4672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Campbell ◽  
Magnus Egerstedt ◽  
Jonathan P. How ◽  
Richard M. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Vehicle Safety ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State

The development of autonomous vehicles for urban driving has seen rapid progress in the past 30 years. This paper provides a summary of the current state of the art in autonomous driving in urban environments, based primarily on the experiences of the authors in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge (DUC). The paper briefly summarizes the approaches that different teams used in the DUC, with the goal of describing some of the challenges that the teams faced in driving in urban environments. The paper also highlights the long-term research challenges that must be overcome in order to enable autonomous driving and points to opportunities for new technologies to be applied in improving vehicle safety, exploiting intelligent road infrastructure and enabling robotic vehicles operating in human environments.

scholarly journals An Overview of the Latest Progress and Core Challenge of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 06002
Author(s):  
Zongwei Liu ◽  
Hao Jiang ◽  
Hong Tan ◽  
Fuquan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Vehicle Technologies

The mass production of autonomous vehicle is coming, thanks to the rapid progress of autonomous driving technology, especially the recent breakthroughs in LiDAR sensors, GPUs, and deep learning. Many automotive and IT companies represented by Waymo and GM are constantly promoting their advanced autonomous vehicles to hit public roads as early as possible. This paper systematically reviews the latest development and future trend of the autonomous vehicle technologies, discusses the extensive application of AI in ICV, and identifies the key problems and core challenges facing the commercialization of autonomous vehicle. Based on the review, it forecasts the prospects and conditions of autonomous vehicle’s mass production and points out the arduous, long-term and systematic nature of its development.

scholarly journals 1 year, 1000 km: The Oxford RobotCar dataset

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Maddern ◽  
Geoffrey Pascoe ◽  
Chris Linegar ◽  
Paul Newman
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Heavy Rain ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Full Dataset ◽  
Localization And Mapping

We present a challenging new dataset for autonomous driving: the Oxford RobotCar Dataset. Over the period of May 2014 to December 2015 we traversed a route through central Oxford twice a week on average using the Oxford RobotCar platform, an autonomous Nissan LEAF. This resulted in over 1000 km of recorded driving with almost 20 million images collected from 6 cameras mounted to the vehicle, along with LIDAR, GPS and INS ground truth. Data was collected in all weather conditions, including heavy rain, night, direct sunlight and snow. Road and building works over the period of a year significantly changed sections of the route from the beginning to the end of data collection. By frequently traversing the same route over the period of a year we enable research investigating long-term localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles in real-world, dynamic urban environments. The full dataset is available for download at: http://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk

DIGITALIZATION OF LABOR MIGRATION PROCESSES IN UZBEKISTAN. WORLD EXPERIENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Sulkhiya Gazieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Logic Circuits ◽  
Digital Logic ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Future

The future of labor market depends upon several factors, long-term innovation and the demographic developments. However, one of the main drivers of technological change in the future is digitalization and central to this development is the production and use of digital logic circuits and its derived technologies, including the computer,the smart phone and the Internet. Especially, smart automation will perhaps not cause e.g.regarding industries, occupations, skills, tasks and duties

Der Wald-Wild-Konflikt – was kann die Forstökonomie zur Lösung beitragen? (Essay)

2017 ◽  
Vol 168 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-185
Author(s):  
Marc Hanewinkel
Keyword(s):  
Forest Economics ◽  
Production Risk ◽  
Damage Compensation ◽  
Land Expectation Value ◽  
Compensation Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Single Tree Selection ◽  
Simplifying Assumptions ◽  
Forest Enterprises

The forest-game conflict – how can forest economics contribute to solve it? (Essay) Core parameters of forest economics such as land expectation value or highest revenue show that damage caused by wild ungulates can critically influence the economic success of forest enterprises. When assessing and evaluating the damage in order to calculate damage compensation, methods are applied in Germany that look either into the past (“cost value methods”) or into the future (“expected value methods”). The manifold uncertainties related to this evaluation over long-term production periods are taken into account within a framework of conventions through strongly simplifying assumptions. Only lately, the increased production risk due to game-induced loss of species diversity is also considered. Additional aspects that should be taken into account in the future are the loss of climate-adapted species, the change of the insurance values of forest ecosystems and the impossibility of specific management systems such as single-tree selection forestry due to the influence of game. Because of high transaction costs when assessing the damage, financial compensation should only be the “ultimate measure” and a meditation between stakeholder groups with the goal to find a cooperative solution before the damage occurs should be preferred.

The Future of Muslim Education in the United States: An Agenda for Research

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 46-82
Author(s):  
Fathi Malkawi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Education ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Future ◽  
Muslim Education ◽  
Future Plans

This paper addresses some of the Muslim community’s concerns regarding its children’s education and reflects upon how education has shaped the position of other communities in American history. It argues that the future of Muslim education will be influenced directly by the present realities and future trends within American education in general, and, more importantly, by the well-calculated and informed short-term and long-term decisions and future plans taken by the Muslim community. The paper identifies some areas in which a wellestablished knowledge base is critical to making decisions, and calls for serious research to be undertaken to furnish this base.

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