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Scientists: drivers of unmanned vehicles will visit passengers, learning what motion
Researchers from the University of Michigan found that more than a third of motorists intend to read, watch TV or work during trips in unmanned vehicles. Such a pastime, as stated in the report , will turn into a constant or frequent manifestation of rocking syndromes for the owners of such cars.
According to Kommersant, Michael Sivak and Brandon Shetll from the Research Institute of Transport at the University of Michigan conducted a survey of more than 3,200 respondents from the United States, Great Britain, India, China, Japan and Australia, asking how they would spend the time that was released thanks to self-governing cars. More than a third of the Americans replied that they would have taken on a trip either with something useful or simply pleasant.
Among the classes they listed were reading, watching TV or TV shows, video games, written work. In India, the number of respondents who indicated these activities exceeded half. In China, it amounted to about 40%, and in the UK, Australia and Japan, 26-30%will take time in this way.
Despite all the apparent benefits of unmanned cars, which will free some time in a dense schedule of forever occupied citizens, such a pastime can adversely affect the health of these people. From 6% to 12% of adults who will use self -governing cars, can eventually begin to suffer from motion sickness. Moreover, its syndromes can manifest itself in some of the owners of such cars both occasionally and on an ongoing basis.
There are three reasons at once: the first is the conflict between the vestibular apparatus of a person who is in a moving unmanned car and the auditorium signals, which are acted, for example, at the time of reading the book; The second is the inability to foresee the direction of movement; And finally, the third reason is the lack of control over movement.
Of course, you can fight such a disease by regularly taking some drugs. But the best means of combating motion sickness will still be control of where the car is going. It is not necessary to manage them, a person needs to just look at the window at least occasionally so as not to lose orientation in space.