DAV — Dream Transport

aervin11 (38)in #dav • 8 years ago

DAV
Dream Transport

In the past few years we are always seeing flying cars in most sci-fi movies. We are now heading on that idea and trying to develop to be like that hopefully in the future. Here I would tell you more about DAV also known as Decentralized Autonomous Vehicle.

What is DAV?

Basically DAV is a software platform that allows anyone to buy or sell autonomous transportation services in a decentralized market. The platform integrates into any autonomous vehicles, enabling those vehicles to discover, communicate, and transact with one another using a digital currency called the DAV token.

Inspired by Google, Lyft, and Uber. Handful of the companies working on autonomous transportation, but they are all building their solutions using the same closed platform model AOL was using back in the 1990s. Autonomous drone and robotics companies have also begun to emerge and, similarly, their networks are proprietary, closed and non-inclusive.

With the mission to eliminate of the need for a driver, hundreds of millions of hours will be unleashed annually as drivers become passengers in vehicles that provide improved safety and a better transportation economy. The “Passenger Economy” will increasingly drive change across a variety of industries, disrupting vehicle ownership with “Mobility-as-a-Service.” This will accelerate emerging use cases, which also extend to transportation and delivery businesses.

Effects when DAV is applied

Cost Reduction

Fierce competition has resulted in cheaper, more reliable, and more capable vehicles than those that existed just a few years ago. One type of autonomous vehicle that has seen accelerated growth in the mainstream is the commercial drone. The best consumer drones are now being deployed for commercial use, often with few or no modifications. “Just as with smartphones, people who enjoyed playing with consumer drones realized it made sense to take them to work too,” says Jonathan Downey of Airware.

Emerging Use Cases

Whether we look at companies like Starship Technologies in Estonia and Dispatch in California, who have developed wheeled-cooler-sized drones that are making deliveries on footpaths, or Unsupervised.ai, the French startup that uses a drone that has legs and resembles a dog for “last 50 meter” deliveries, it is clear that the innovation being undertaken is broad in scope and global in scale

Legal Commercial Use

The flood of consumer drones and autonomous vehicles have forced regulators to push through legislation to allow commercial development and use. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a blanket federal restriction on commercial drone operators. All commercial drone operators must apply for a “333 exemption” from the FAA before doing business, register their aircraft online with the FAA for $5, and receive a certificate of authorization (COA) or other FAA authorization. The following heat map from AirMap, the airspace management company, shows that 461,120 recreational drones and 8,416 commercial-use drones had been registered with the FAA by the end of May 2017.

Many other countries have followed the FAA’s regulatory lead, which is clearing commercial drones for takeoff worldwide.

Open Source Vehicle Technology

A large number of autonomous vehicles are being developed as open-source projects by developer communities, as well as by commercial companies. These projects introduce new ways to design and build autonomous cars, drones, robots, and even underwater vessels. In the autonomous car space: Open Source Car Control (OSCC1 ) provides developers with a collection of firmware and hardware designs for computer control of their autonomous development vehicles. Apollo2 provides an open, reliable, and secure software platform for its partners to develop their own autonomous driving systems through on-vehicle and hardware platforms.

Token Economy

Blockchain technology has opened new possibilities for the recognition and exchange of value. We are now entering a time when applications may be built on top of blockchain technology and in doing so also create industry-specific economies and ecosystems. This white paper proposes a way to leverage this significant economic paradigm shift by building a blockchain-based, global, and completely open-source technology stack that enables cooperation between members of the new transportation economy and the financial tools to incentivize network growth. The network becomes more useful as more users join and the demand for the tokens increases; this helps create incentives for early adopters who are vital for the creation of an active and growing ecosystem.

The PROBLEM and The SOLUTION

The Problem

Centralization and narrow economic interests restrict the pace at which transformative technologies can be released and adopted by the market, as the key players are focused on dominating their own isolated networks, and not on creating a collaborative infrastructure that is more efficient and has higher potential for more diverse use cases in the long run.

The Solution

By open-sourcing the DAV technology stack and decentralizing protocols around identity, discovery, mission flow, and payments, provided through a modular UI, DAV enables cooperation. New players can enter the market, creating distributed value and growing participation in the transportation economy. A decentralized open source network means that players can independently take action in response to unfilled or poorly filled market needs.

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The Purpose of DAV

The purpose of the DAV cryptocurrency is to incentivize a community-built autonomous vehicle infrastructure and build an autonomous vehicle platform that is commercially viable and essential for cooperation. The DAV network enables the distribution of tokens across all groups of network participants, and the growth of the network benefits all network members.