Mornington Peninsula Automated vehicles road trials conducted last week

Posted by trafficsafe on Jan 16, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Mornington Peninsula Automated Vehicles road trials conducted last week  Driverless Vehicles

Normally for Automated vehicles road trials The  driverless vehicles acquires  instructions from the road infrastructure but not going to go into that now. On that Day the driverless automated vehicles road trials would be driven by remote control from the support vehicle for safety reasons, We led the passengers to believe the car was driven via Automated Technologies.

A)  On this day, all we did is approach you and explain to you that we were conducting automated vehicles road trials and asked you if you would take a short ride in an Automated Vehicles to a short destination of your choice ,  The car looked like a normal standard car. no sensors were visible, just a plain looking vehicle, many people would not even get in or think it was an automated vehicle, It looks like they expect an automated vehicle to look like a spaceship. Not to many of the general public get the opportunity to feel what it would be to be driven by a driverless vehicle

B) Well some people took the challenge, mostly under 30, older people would not even think of  it, and express that it would not be their cup of tea, Our opinion is that social acceptance will become an issue down the track.

C) The group that was most interested in the vehicles were under 18, imagining that they could borrow their parents car to go somewhere without a licence and under 18. That Was a funny subject but could become a reality.

D) Forget parking send the car back home to park and call it back after work to get home,  i think the best one was when a child asked if it meant that his mum would not have to drive him to school anymore  Imagination ran wild.  anyway we will leave that to your imagination

We expect our next trials to be conducted at the bittern market in the near future.

Why are we doing this?

To gain community support for the only all Australian Automated Vehicles guidance System. We are certainly not getting any from state, federal , council  so it is completely self funded, by us.
We will never manufacture cars nor intend to, All we will be able to do is add the ARDS system to non currently Automated Vehicles here in Australia, a simple safe system.