1st Edition

Sustainability Prospects for Autonomous Vehicles Environmental, Social, and Urban

By George Martin Copyright 2020
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) has been strongly heralded as the most exciting innovation in automobility for decades. Autonomous Vehicles are no longer an innovation of the future (seen only in science fiction) but are now being road-tested for use. And yet while the technical and economic success and possibilities of the AV have been widely debated, there has been a notable lack of discussion... Read more

Chapter One: Setting the Scene





Chapter Two: Environmental Sustainability





Chapter Three: Social Sustainability





Chapter Four: Urban Sustainability





Chapter Five: Scorecards and Wildcards

Biography

George Martin is currently Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department at Montclair State University. He is also Visiting Research Associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey. He has served as Senior Editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism since 2010 and is author of The Ecology of the Automobile.