An Overview Of Automated Highway Systems Ahs And The Social Institutional Challenges They Face

An Overview of Automated Highway Systems (AHS) and the Social Institutional Challenges They Face

From Automated to Autonomous Driving

This book presents the most important milestones of the research on automated and autonomous driving in the United States, Japan and Europe throughout five decades (1950-2000). Drawing on sources from the automotive industry, electrical engineering, the robotics and AI-domain and military institutions, it retraces the transition from the guidance-cable approach to vehicle-based sensor and vision systems. Giving a detailed overview of the technical concepts, artefacts, research vehicles and robots, the book presents the transnational engineering efforts that started long before Silicon Valley entered the field. In addition, the book also uniquely details the role of the military in the domain of vehicle automation. This all ensures the book is of great interest to historians of technology, practitioners in engineering disciplines, scholars working in mobility studies, journalists, and political decision makers.

Coalitions & Organizational Growth: An Exploration of the Collective Action Theory of Organizational Growth

Here I seek a theoretical investigation of the theory of coalition formation based on the nature of collective action of the participants: Coalition formation between groups varies directly with their degree of centralization, independent of other factors, including group size. I also explore how a theory of coalitions may apply to patterns of growth of coalitions (that is, how a theory of coalitions may apply to organizational growth).