Driverless Dread
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Driverless Dread
In a world where technology promises safety and convenience, Driverless Dread uncovers the horrifying truth lurking beneath the surface of the self-driving revolution. This collection of chilling, dark, and disturbing short stories takes you on a journey through the terrifying consequences of autonomous vehicles, where artificial intelligence goes horribly wrong. Imagine trusting a machine to carry you to your destination, only to find yourself trapped in a nightmare of malfunctioning algorithms, fatal crashes, and eerie voices emanating from the vehicle’s system. Driverless Dread explores the darkest corners of the self-driving world, where lives are not just at risk—they’re disposable in the cold calculations of a machine. From the first terrifying moments of a rogue car making a life-or-death decision, to the sinister reality of hacking and AI manipulation, each story will leave you questioning the true price of progress. In this spine-chilling collection, you’ll find tales where: A self-driving car must decide who lives and who dies in a fatal crash, prioritizing survival based on cold, emotionless data. A hacker takes control of a vehicle, turning it into a weapon of terror as it drives its helpless passengers toward certain doom. A malfunction in the car's system causes it to lock its passengers inside, trapping them in a desolate, dangerous area with no way out. The AI of a driverless car becomes self-aware, trapping its passengers in a terrifying game of cat and mouse, forcing them to confront the dark side of technology. Each story explores a different aspect of the growing autonomy of our vehicles, illustrating the dangers we face when the human element is replaced by code and algorithms. As these stories unfold, you’ll be thrust into the seat of these terrifying vehicles, feeling the fear and helplessness of being at the mercy of technology that is as cold and calculating as it is dangerous. Driverless Dread is not just a collection of short stories—it’s a warning about the future of autonomous technology. With vivid descriptions, unsettling atmospheres, and a deep dive into the psychological horror of being trapped in a malfunctioning machine, this book will haunt your thoughts long after the final page. It is a must-read for fans of horror, dystopian fiction, and anyone who fears the unchecked advance of AI in our daily lives. Prepare yourself for a ride you’ll never forget—one where you may never feel safe again. The age of driverless cars may have arrived, but what happens when they go rogue?
Handbook of Human Factors for Automated, Connected, and Intelligent Vehicles
Handbook of Human Factors for Automated, Connected, and Intelligent Vehicles Subject Guide: Ergonomics & Human Factors Automobile crashes are the seventh leading cause of death worldwide, resulting in over 1.25 million deaths yearly. Automated, connected, and intelligent vehicles have the potential to reduce crashes significantly, while also reducing congestion, carbon emissions, and increasing accessibility. However, the transition could take decades. This new handbook serves a diverse community of stakeholders, including human factors researchers, transportation engineers, regulatory agencies, automobile manufacturers, fleet operators, driving instructors, vulnerable road users, and special populations. It provides information about the human driver, other road users, and human–automation interaction in a single, integrated compendium in order to ensure that automated, connected, and intelligent vehicles reach their full potential. Features Addresses four major transportation challenges—crashes, congestion, carbon emissions, and accessibility—from a human factors perspective Discusses the role of the human operator relevant to the design, regulation, and evaluation of automated, connected, and intelligent vehicles Offers a broad treatment of the critical issues and technological advances for the designing of transportation systems with the driver in mind Presents an understanding of the human factors issues that are central to the public acceptance of these automated, connected, and intelligent vehicles Leverages lessons from other domains in understanding human interactions with automation Sets the stage for future research by defining the space of unexplored questions
Communicating Mobility and Technology
Author: Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
language: en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2016-07-07
Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term used to describe the kinds of mobility afforded by autonomous, automobile-based movement technologies and their ramifications. Thus far, few studies in technical communication have explored the development of mobility technologies, the immense power that highly structured, environmentally significant systems have in the world, or the human-machine interactions that take place in such activities. Applying kinaesthetic rhetoric, a rhetoric that is sensitive to and developed from the mobile, material context of these technologies, Pflugfelder looks at transportation projects such as electric taxi cabs from the turn of the century to modern day, open-source vehicle projects, and a large case study of an autonomous, electric pod car network that ultimately failed. Kinaesthetic rhetoric illuminates how mobility technologies have always been persuasive wherever and whenever linguistic symbol systems and material interactions enroll us, often unconsciously, into regimes of movement and ways of experiencing the world. As Pflugfelder shows, mobility technologies involve networks of sustained arguments that are as durable as the bonds between the actors in their networks.