The autonomous car, a climate scandal?
According to a study, the development of autonomous vehicles represents a real risk for the ecological transition. Perfectly, the concept of autonomous vehicles between in a concrete way in our lives.Here...
21/08/2022
According to a study, the development of autonomous vehicles represents a real risk for ecological transition.
Little by little, the concept of autonomous vehicles between in a concrete way in our lives.Here, it is an experiment of shuttle without driver implemented on a perfectly marked course.There, it is Tesla ui promises us the arrival of automated driving technology on its cars in the coming months, with certainty that fleas make much less driving errors than humans.
Further on, it is Geely, Chinese car manufacturer, who joins a web giant in order to develop and then market cars without drivers in the coming years.If the technological challenge is enormous, the promises are just as much.
Explosion of distances traveled
The fact remains that the autonomous car still poses many questions.In addition to the complexity of the development of this technology, which would make the massive deployment before 2050, it would have important ecological drawbacks, according to a study of the VIES Mobile and the Ecological Factory Forum and the Ecological Factory.
Thus, whether it is the autonomous cars of individuals or the taxi robots, a massive development would have the consequence of an explosion of the distances traveled on these future rolling fairs (ah, the prospect of rallying Paris in Biarritz in the nightWhile sleeping…), with a three -color energy consumption of the car park for corollary.
Another pitfall, according to this same study, storage of incredible amounts of data generated by these cars.According to estimates, each connected vehicle would generate 1 GB per second, or 1.3 million GB each year for a lambda vehicle.We dare not imagine the size of the data centers necessary for the conservation of this data.
To this would be added, underlines the report, "CO2 emissions linked to the production, installation, maintenance, renewal and waste management of a set of objects and infrastructure on road or on board.»»
Evoquant « un déploiement en décalage avec l’urgence climatique»», les auteurs de l’étude soulignent aussi les «impasses technologique et juridique difficiles à dépasser dans les années qui viennent.»»
« À l’inverse, ne faudrait-il pas développer sans attendre un système de mobilité plus sobre ?»», interroge Christophe Gay, co-directeur du Forum Vies Mobiles."A system composed of light or low -tech vehicles, easily repairable and recyclable, consuming fewer materials, requiring less heavy infrastructure in synergy with active modes and public transport.»»
Always more techno
C’est là que le bât blesse : la tendance de l’automobile est au contraire à un enrichissement permanent de technologies (à plus forte raison avec l’électrification qui se généralise), et on voit mal comment des véhicules « low tech»» dépourvus d’assistances à la conduite et autres équipements de confort et de sécurité pourraient aujourd’hui s’imposer.
But these proposals are ultimately not surprising if we recall that mobile lives comes from the SNCF, which seems to defend its shop here a bit.
Anyway, this study, which goes against government ambitions, has the merit of opening the debate.In spring 2018, the public authorities were indeed engaged in the development of the autonomous car, with the aim of launching experiments on open road with level 4 vehicles on a scale of 5 (which means that the driver cantotally letting go of orders in most situations) by 2022.