Smart Cities: A New Look at the Autonomous-Vehicle Infrastructure

As digital transformation has taken over the world, we interact with more and more intelligent gadgets. Today, our smartphones are always with us, at the end of the day we get in our smart vehicle and drive to our smart home. And all this to simplify our daily activities and make life more convenient. But have you ever wondered how far could this go?

Automation of routine tasks is currently a concept that interests many industries. Among the most revolutionary parts of it are autonomous vehicles. There are visions of the future of city infrastructure. The main ideas they all share are self-driving cars and shared mobility. Those are set to revolutionize the ways we navigate through cities.

Such concepts will make our whole cities smart, by fundamentally changing their infrastructure so that it’s adopted to autonomous vehicles. This will provide us with much safer roads. According to the USA National Highway Traffic Administration, 94% of serious car crashes are due to human error.

Autonomous driving wouldn’t need people’s decisions, which could often be dangerous and irrational to take you from point A to point B. This means a significant decrease in accidents and thousands of saved lives.