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What Do We Want from Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)? Using Participatory Planning and Scenario Analysis of Alternative Features to Identify Stakeholders’ Desired Outcomes from the Strategic Deployment of Emerging Transportation Technology
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2019-09-01
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:The overarching goal of this research is to reframe debate about the autonomous vehicle (AV) from its current perspective that encourages states to understand how to respond to this evolving technology to a more proactive stance organized around the question of what outcomes society would like to obtain from the strategic deployment of AV technology? In other words, rather than accept that AVs are an inevitable technology that state departments of transportation (state DOTs) need to prepare for and accommodate, a more forward‐looking approach would be to think through some potential consequences of AV adoption, and use the outcomes from these analyses as the basis for public engagement with stakeholders to determine what outcomes would be preferred. This approach of using scenario analysis as a form of exploration to determine stakeholder preferences gives agency to stakeholders, will help to highlight areas of potential conflict between different interest groups, and will also likely help to identify and hopefully avoid potential unintended and unwanted consequences of technology adoption. It is important to clarify that the intention of this project is not to avoid technological adoption but instead to recognize that important decisions about disruptive technologies that may affect society can and should be based on reasoned and informed inquiry.
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