The Future of Transportation:

1. Safety: Self-driving cars will reduce the number of accidents on the road as they can react more quickly than human drivers.
2. Efficiency: Self-driving cars have been proven to be safer than human-driven vehicles, which means you can use them for longer periods without being tired or distracted by your phone. They also consume less fuel and emit fewer emissions, so they are better for the environment.
3. Reduce parking problems: Self-driving vehicles can park themselves in designated areas so they won’t be blocking traffic while you’re waiting for your ride.
4. Reduce running costs: The cost of buying fuel, electricity, or leasing parking space will all be reduced by having an autonomous vehicle

Autonomous Vehicles cleaner and quieter

• The technology already exists in many forms, but there is still some way to go before we have cities full of driverless vehicles. There are advantages and disadvantages to a world dominated by autonomous vehicles.
• Some of the advantages include quieter and less polluted urban areas, thanks to the fact almost all autonomous car technology is being built for electric vehicles.
• AVs also have the potential to reduce commute times if they are used in conjunction with special underground tunnels or built into a ride-sharing system.

Transport could radically drop in price

• Other brilliant advantages are that taxis and transport may become cheaper as efficient electric transportation becomes available.
• However, with this comes the downside that many transport-related jobs could potentially be lost forever. There are also concerns that IoT connected transport systems could be vulnerable to hackers.
• There is no doubt the impact of autonomous vehicles is going to be huge. Almost every aspect of cities will be touched by a rise in autonomous vehicles. Just how this will look like is unknown, but AVs are definitely on their way.

Role of Autonomous Vehicles in the Logistics:

1. It is expected that automation in long haul freight trucks will make long-distance transits
   • Less expensive
   • more secure
   • with less carbon footprint.

1. This technology will help drivers dodge hurdles by computing the most secure moves in any situation, reducing the number of accidents.

Worldwide driver lack issue:

• The number of qualified drivers in the shipping business is less due to demographics. Using self-driving trucks could fill this gap.
• Self-driving trucks could assist more older drivers or individuals with handicaps and give them a job opportunity.

Reducing Transport Expenses in Logistics:

• The trucks will be able to realize how to change courses to prevent delays, and they will consistently drive at ideal speed.
• Each truck needs a full-time driver, and this driver needs to take breaks to rest or eat. An independent truck can hypothetically drive 24 hours per day 365 days every year.
• If the products could be moved without a driver, the working expenses for cargo sending organizations would be decreased by up to 40 %

Truck Platooning

• Automated shipping can permit the formation of platoons of trucks effectively: a few trucks going on a similar course are arranged through M2M correspondence to shape a unit.
• The principal truck sets the speed and course, all others follow it, steer, and brake consequently in time with the lead vehicle.

Users and use of the new mobility concepts – carsharing and “core application”

1. Mobility matters and is a fundamental need of every human being. We are constantly on the move to meet our friends and family, travel on holiday or simply go to the store. There are long established means of transportation in everyday life such as bicycles, manual cars, buses, trams etc. Autonomous vehicles represent a new mobility concept. As explained above, the driver has little or no action to perform. People most often like to experience a convenient, affordable, and unremarkable journey. Car companies have recognized these desires.
2. For example, Volkswagen has developed a shuttle-on – demand (MOIA) which was proven to be highly efficient and flexible. This electric vehicle can be booked by a customer via smartphone app by simply entering their location and destination and the MOIA vehicle comes at a virtual stop up until 250 meters away from the customer and the app navigates the customer to the vehicle. This concept of mobility promotes sharing a journey with other people who are traveling in the same direction and thus preventing traffic congestion, saving the environment by having fewer cars on the roads and reducing traffic. This way of transportation is known as carsharing. Carsharing existed long before autonomous cars started to emerge, but the difference is that the user no longer must come to the vehicle, but the vehicle comes to the user

Digitalization of the everyday world as a basic precondition for new mobility concept:

• Well known app for carsharing Car2Go made a survey in 2014 and discovered that the users find the digitalization of mobility quite useful.
• Users say that cars are available at any time and can use them spontaneously. These facts may explain the rapid success of flexible carsharing.

Drone – The Future Transportation/Logistics etc

Drone technology in Health care industry:

• Drones help the medical field in a very efficient way.
• Drones can give aid and lifesaving treatments to the people in the disaster affected areas.
• Drones provide the safe transport of disease test samples and test kits in areas with high contagion and highly restricted areas.
• They also help in transportation of organs for transplantation. It has potential to deliver portable tools like ultrasound etc.

Drone technology in Military:

• There are three types of drones used in the military purposes.
• They are strategic (fly at 200000 meters), operational (can fly at 7500 to 15000 meters) and tactical (fly up to short range (20 miles)).
• During the Vietnam war, they helped to plot north Vietnamese
• Later after eight years, in Kosovo attacks, drones played a vital role by winning 9/11 attacks which gave a boost to Kosovo.
• AI Qaeda terrorist in Yemen was killed by drone-launched missile
• Drones also saved the lives of Americans by detecting the road-side bombs