Annotated bibliography about Autonomous Vehicles

M. Anderson, J., Kalra, N., & A. Oluwatola, O. (2014). 1. In Autonomous Vehicle Technology(1st ed., Vol. 1, p. 4,5). CAMBRIDGE, UK: RAND Corporation.

This book prepared with The RAND Corporation which is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. This book is about autonomous vehicle with its all aspects. With starting from introduction part it explains Autonomous Vehicle Technology Important. Beginning with Google’s efforts today many industrialized companies are making researches and developments and as these technology increasing day by day governmental policy made in several states of US and being considered in other places also. One other important point for AVs is, as we know every year many people die with car accidents which is mostly occurred with human mistake. Using AVs(autonomous vehicles) will apparently reduce this accident with a huge percentage because they would do any error. In the following parts of this book you can find also history, current state and future promises of AVs also.

Staff, CNN Wire. "Google Gets License to Operate Driverless Cars in Nevada." CNN. Cable News Network, 08 May 2012

In this article by referring to some benefits of AVs such as preventing traffic accidents and decreasing the time and energy consumed while traveling it also gives information about the technical parts that the Google used in AVs. I think this is best article that shortly introduced the AVs and its importance in daily life. There is a short video from Google is test drive which a person of 95 percent blind is doing the deriving that is brilliant.

Doug Newcomb, You won't need a driver's license by 2040, http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/tech/innovation/ieee-2040-cars/index.html, (9-25-2013)

This article is one of the most inspiring article that explains well the important of AVs in the future. Besides the important like reducing accidents and low energy consume with vehicle, some technological ways that how the vehicle will communicate with each other and prevent the crash or traffic jam is being explained in this article such as V2V, V2I and V2X.

"Pros and Cons - Autonomous Cars." Pros and Cons - Autonomous Cars. Google, 18 Nov. 2012

This site is introducing in very clear way that what pros and what cons would be there is Autonomous cars enter officially to our daily lives. Although there is no any academic or scientific reliable reasons but at least it will give an idea about the results of a world that the Autonomous cars are in use.

Alex Forrest, Mustafa Konca, Autonomous Cars and Society, http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-043007-205701/unrestricted/IQPOVP06B1.pdf,

This is also one of the important book that you can find price and clear information about Autonomous cars. The technology that autonomous car use is well introduced as well as its sociological effects. One of the interesting point that mentioned here is, Auto-enthusiasts will disappear due to car sharing, as cars are no longer person, and why would anyone want to make any modifications or improvements to a car that isn't their own.

Jim Motavalli,The Future of Cars: Autonomous...and Electric, http://www.plugincars.com/cars-future-autonomousand-electric-128131.html. (9-25-2013)

This article will be best answer to question like Will gas stations change? Electric vs gas?
Electric cars automatically fueling in garage would be preferable to standard mechanical cars filling up with gas automatically and more risk in plugging in a gas pump or electric plug? By considering the view point of some companies like Nissan and also some researching groups like a team at Oxford University that are making some development in autonomous cars, this article has offers most valuable answers.

RAND Corporation. (2014). Self-Driving Vehicles Offer Potential Benefits, Policy Challenges for Lawmakers [Press release]. Retrieved from http://www.rand.org/news/press/2014/01/06.html. (January 2014)

This is one of the journal news which is done by the James M. Anderson the Senior Behavioral Scientist. This research and study is done by interviewing with many people from different areas about the autonomous vehicle and its results and apparently it make this news valuable. You can find the negative effects of using these cars from the perspective of policymaker, economy and personal life (by data which these car collect).

James M. Anderson…Oluwatobi Oluwatola,(2014). Autonomous Vehicle Technology How to Best Realize Its Social Benefits (RB-9755-RC). Retrieved from http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9755.html

This is a research report about the autonomous vehicle from the following point of views, about the current technologies that is being used such as making sense of the world and Vehicle communication, about the benefits of these vehicles from the perspective of avoiding crashes and increasing mobility and so on… and about some guidelines for governments to make some policies regarding secure usage of these vehicle while they started to be used. I think this is valuable study and research to make people more aware from future technology.

Bora Alp Baydere… Charlie Ritter Madden,(2014). The Future of the Automobile Car-Sharing Service using Autonomous Automobiles. Retrieved from: http://web.stanford.edu/class/me302/PreviousTerms/2014-06Car-SharingServiceUsingAutonomousAutomobiles(paper).pdf

This is an article about the autonomous vehicle that Stanford University is sharing with its student and probably is the most detailed research about AVs. It is introducing its technology by details as well as its benefits and its challenges that might society and world across when these enter to our lives.

KPMG&CAR,(2014). Self-driving cars: The next revolutionRetrieved from: http://www.kpmg.com/US/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/self-driving-cars-next-revolution.pdf

KPMG AND CAR are two Global automotive industry which are making researches by distinct groups and programs. Together they published this article which has detailed information about self-deriving cars. In this article they take the autonomous cars as a new area of business and its revolutions and affects to other industries. Besides giving information that these cars using, in this article its financial dimensions is also taken considerations.