Progress and Challenges of Autonomous Vehicles
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 2815
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Interests: information security; autonomous vehicle; mobile device; healthcare; awareness
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Dear Colleagues,
The introduction of autonomous vehicles has been planned by manufacturers for some time, and the SAE levels have been increasing; however, it seems that full self-driving has not yet been achieved. There have been many promises of a launch date, but these have been postponed. We are seeing more attempts and experimentation around the world, but we are also seeing increasingly unplanned, unresolved traffic situations that vehicles cannot handle because they are not prepared for them. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather research results that will help to make full self-driving accessible and achievable, whether on the ground or in the air. All research areas of interest to us are those that are closer to being able to safely and reliably solve all traffic situations through vehicle decision-making, thus contributing to social acceptance and making transport safer. People will only buy self-driving vehicles if they have full confidence that the decision-making is the best in any given case. We need to use science to show the benefits of using self-driving vehicles, in addition to safer driving, faster and better decision-making, and reduced accident rates. We welcome any studies that show the challenges researchers face in designing and developing self-driving vehicles, describing the problem and its possible solutions, and thus aiding further research and implementation in this direction.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Challenges of self-driving;
- Artificial intelligence research in self-driving;
- Decision-making in self-driving;
- Safety issues in self-driving;
- Protection against hacking in self-driving;
- Vehicle communication;
- Smart city self-driving relationship
- Smart roads in self-driving
- Challenges of traffic situations in self-driving
- Human factor in self-driving
- Impact of pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists on self-driving
- Challenges of aircraft in self-driving.
Dr. Gabor Kiss
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-driving
- challenge
- smart road
- smart city
- decision making
- artificial intelligence
- aircraft
- take off
- landing
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