Autonomous Vehicles and Virtual Reality: The New Automobile Industrial Revolution

This book concisely describes the technologies, human perception,  and cognition issues relevant to autonomous vehicles. It also gives an  insight in the changes bring about our future everyday lives.
Autonomous  vehicles are the future of the automobile industry. Automated driving  (AD), also called self-driving, raises however several multiple  questions, among them those of user safety and acceptation.  Comprehensive HMI system design, with windshield display technics, will  be necessary to deal with driving task delegations, bringing the use of  VR or augmented reality (AR) technologies. In addition, the use of VR  for all the vehicle interiors will progressively be proposed for  entertainment, online business activities and for modified visual motion  perception to alleviate car sickness, a form of motion sickness.  Indeed, car sickness is already well known for many passengers,  especially when reading or operating smartphones or other display  devices. It is called to increase significantly with the introduction of  autonomous vehicles where all users will be for long periods in various  sitting positions. These two new trends, AD and VR, are already  modifying our relationship with the world and the society. All together,  they will change our way of life forever.
The book will be of  interest to professionals in the auto industry, researchers in  automotive engineering and computer science and all those interested in  the future of transport.