Ethical and Technical Aspects Related to Automated Vehicles and the Green Deal to Ensure Efficient, Safe and Low-pollution Transport
Ethical and Technical Aspects Related to Automated Vehicles and the Green Deal to Ensure Efficient, Safe and Low-pollution Transport

Author(s): Doru-Laurean Băldean
Subject(s): Environmental Geography
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: full self-driving; automated vehicles; automated technology; autonomous vehicles;
Summary/Abstract: We are going through a stage of civilisation in which there are simultaneouslyautomatic systems that provide us with water, electricity, gasand the Internet at any level of the housing buildings, as well as ruralsettlements that do not benefit from all these utilities. In isolated communitiesin Romania, a member country of the European Union, just likein some more primitive communities in Palestine and in African countries,opening a tap to which clean water flows is only a luxury that somepeople only dream about without being able to enjoy this automatic watertransport system. On certain social networks, paid video spots arebeing run by organisations dedicated to implementing automatic waterextraction and pumping systems in isolated communities in Africa to relievethe daily effort of children and women in those communities whoare charged with bringing water into their communities. Why did I startcontextualising the study topic with these contextual details that havenothing to do with motor vehicles? Even if, from a philosophical pointof view, the answers can be multiple, one of the explanations can be thatthe metaphor thus created leads us to think of the similarities in the situations.

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