Question

1. This chapter discusses autonomous vehicles or driverless cars. Identify the pros and cons of driverless vehicles.
2. Identify the realistic uses of driverless vehicles in logistics. How do you think they will be integrated in supply chain management? How do you think driverless vehicles can links to the overall logistics process?
3. Explain the ethical challenges that can arise with driverless vehicles.

Answer 1

Today, technology and automotive is merging and the idea is to create a driverless is attracting the intrest of big giants like Google and apple.But every technology always come up with some Pros and Cons.

Some of the pros of driverless vehicles:

In future entire transportation system will depend on the technology.some of the factors which will help the human being by invention of driverless vehicles

a) Improved safety - After, the existence of driverless vehicles,Automotive vehicles will definetly experienced the lower accidents.Because most of the accidents are a result of Human error.

b) Help the individuals with disabilities - Driverless vehicles, would definitly give the freedom to disable people to travel where they want and also they could less depend on other public transport system.

c) Lower environment impact - If driverless vehicles used the electric engines.it could automatically increase some miles. which will reduce the carbon and help to clean and safe environment.

d) Warehousing operations - By the help of emerging of new technology it could assisted the order picking, auto pallet mover and autonomous loading.

Some of the cons of the driverless vehicles:

a) The human factor may not completely eliminated by the driving. because in emergency situation we know that how to drive.we, don't totally depend on the technology.

b) Security issues: Because there is a involvement of technology,it could be computer who operate your driverless vehicle and there is a high chance to hack your driverless vehicle.

c) It may create loss of jobs in society - The driverless cars can create the loss of jobs because of introduction of artificial intelligence.There is a highly chance that this technology will slowly take the jobs of the people.who totally depend on the operate transport vehicle for there living.

d) Rural communties would likely to get in the last to received this benefits: like other technology implement in the current world,this technology is definitely received by the rural people in the last. Because this technology cost more than $100,000. it will prohibited from the range of the common persons.

Self driving vehicle have the capabilities and the potential to turn around the logistics.This technology will game changer in the field of logistic.Driver less cars help in logistics-

Warehousing operations

autonomous loading and transport

Assisted order picking

Outdoor logistic operations.

So, these are the some points where driverless vehicles can play a important role and this technology will also reduce the cost and time of the operation.which will more satisfied the customers need and wants.

Integrated supply chain management means to an enterprise resource and planning approach to supply chain management.This technology help the supplychain management by manages all the supplies, distribution and logistics activities at a centralized system not a individual system.which will save the time,effort and money of the organisation.Some of the point will help us to understand How driverless vehicle integrated in supplychain management.

1) Driverless technology will help out in warehouse yard.

2) Driverless truck will save the cost and time of the operation.

3) will helpful in E-commerce industry.

After a lot of discussion and ethical thought about driverless vehicle.there are many ethical challenges are arise:

1) challenge of crosswalk: Because of the lower visibility of camera technology/computer can't operate in long range & it is vary hard to approach the crosswalk in the roads & intersections.Even if the visibility of the camera is limited it is very hard to find that near by pedestrian wants to cross the street or not.So driverless vehicle must come up with the technologies who can take quick response and recognize the pedistrian people and analyse that they want to crosswalk the streer or not.

2)Is the vehicle is making choice or we : The important question is arise, because the vehicle is using the artificial intelligence. So,the vehicle is making the choice or we are choosing that where we want to go or not.

3) Rising of trust factor: Because the car is using artificial intelligence and driving in there own.How can we trust in driverless vehicle.

So these are the some ethical challenges that can arise with driverless vehicles.