engleski

People and the new digital traffic environment

rom ancient history, the transport of people, goods, and data has been essential for human civilization. Various technical solutions were used in transport to enable civilizations to make significant progress and dominate over others. The road transport mode is one of the oldest and has been subject to considerable development and substantial changes throughout history. As the most common means of road transport, the availability of cars has significantly changed the appearance of our cities, including traffic management systems. From the first human-driven traffic light to a fully integrated traffic management system within the smart city paradigm embodying an omniscient big brother concept with the ability to learn and improve during operation. Simultaneously, such a management system continuously monitors all available traffic users, their decisions, and changes in the infrastructure itself. It also monitors operator decisions, studies the consequences of decisions made, and stores acquired knowledge for future use. Such established full supervision significantly changes traffic users' behavior in terms of better compliance with traffic rules, emergency vehicles' response time, and increasing the attractiveness of public transport. Besides, the development of connected and autonomous vehicles, a form of mobile robots, is currently very intensive. Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics are important for their safe work. Networked and autonomous vehicles will relieve people of active vehicle management and increase the throughput of the existing transport infrastructure, which motivates their development. There is an open question when people will trust the machine enough to transport them without their influence on the transport process. This open question is especially important in cases of an unavoidable incident in which a living being, animal, or human will be injured. A moral dilemma arises that the machine has to solve by using the knowledge and experience of man. Sacrifice the passengers in the vehicle or other people from the vehicle's environment? The needed knowledge to make such a decision can only come from humans' moral and ethical principles as creators of such machines, or in this case, connected and autonomous vehicles.

Traffic Control, Adaptive Traffic Signal Control, Artificial Intelligence, Moral Dilema

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